The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

Write what you care about.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.