There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.