I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"