My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

There is honor between bitches