If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.
If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. – Chinese proverb
If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.
I'm weird.Everyone says so.
I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.
I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.
I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded...
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 time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he desc...
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those p...
Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
When you love someone you let them take care of you.
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was t...
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you hav...
Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
You told me this lawsuit isn’t about race. But that’s what started it. And it doesn’t matter if you can convince the jury I’m the reincarnation of Florence Nightingale—you can’t take away the fact tha...
You don't love someone because they're perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the...