If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.