“One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.”

“Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicke...”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.”

“Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends sorry, I meant characters.”

“Im proud to be a writer. Im doing the job all my heroes did.”

“One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.”

“Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.”

“Prayer is better than pills.”

“A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot”

“If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?”

“A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”