He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.

I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was — nothing. An annoyance, maybe.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.