With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

We are more than the parts that form us.