My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.