If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

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.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.