'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.

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.