With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.