Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.