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...
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...
Because in the past words have only driven them apart.
Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
You will ask yourself you will ask yourself
You want to hear something really sad?' I whisper. 'You're my best friend.''You're right. That is really sad.' Oliver grins.'That's not what I meant.''Are we still playing True Confessions?' he asks.'...
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 pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep thin...
You don't borrow trouble.
When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
What became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.
We are all just canvases for our scars.
We Pisces, we're a special breed.
Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.
Unlike the characters in the book, however, these different sorts of people don’t seem to mix well. It is like the salad dressing Jessamyn makes: a little bit of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, and som...
This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.
They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monste...
There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else. Eventually someone brave and stupid will come along and try to fill that hole. But it never works,...