Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.

Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.