For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.