Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.