My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.