But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons..

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone..

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it..

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and….

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost..

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down..

I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they e….

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, so….

Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar t….

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK..

For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond an….

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find….

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented ….

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - s….

Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wro….

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had..

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire ward….

Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their….

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuf….

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine ….