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

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

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.