Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.