Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

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

What brings two people together anyway?

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.