Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

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