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

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.