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

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.