One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.

You have to believe in it to get it.