Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?Collection: Kings
The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.Collection: Cheer
And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?Collection: Girl
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.Collection: Writing
It's a cold world when no one will touch you.Collection: World
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.Collection: Love
I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.Collection: Love Is
I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.Collection: Strong
A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.Collection: Hands
I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.Collection: Girl
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.Collection: Book