I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

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

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

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.

Because love, love never finishes.

This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.