A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

It's a cold world when no one will touch you.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

How did my world get so small?

To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

Where's Kraven? Is he stalking me too?"His mouth went tight. "I'm not stalking you.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Donald Trump was elected by people who believe Washington has too much power.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.