She couldn’t actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn’t owned a little piece of her heart.

The guy in your book? I’m that guy, ”“I’ve never done any of the stuff in that book, ” she said, “But I want to. I’ve wanted to for a while.

I think the universe might be sending us a sign.

If you crack a joke right now I swear I will knee you in the junk.

We're all secretly idiots inside.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

Never mind the use--do it!

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.