My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

Willa?" "Yes" "It's morning and I still love you.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.