I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

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.

The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

Get back on that bike.