Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

You can make something out of nothing.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.