If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter.