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- I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it…
- Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name…
- Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
- The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
- Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or…
- The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same…
- I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within…
- I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow…
- For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind.…
- If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of…
- It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I…
- What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the…
- Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your…
- You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a…
- Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who…
- How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every…
- I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk…
- Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
- Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
- Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault -…
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