Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.