Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

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.