Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be." "What makes you strong, Mia?" "Purpose. Love never worked for me.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.