There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

What brings two people together anyway?

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.