I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Too many locks, not enough keys.