The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.