What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.