“At this point, I see the unfortunate recipient of this impromptu history lecture begin to doze and I move on to my next unwilling victim.”

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”

“In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.”

“You okay? This okay?" I nod, pulling his hips more tightly to my own."Now we'll make it better," Jase vows, and begins to kiss me again as he starts to move in a rhythm. My body follows, unwilling to let him go, already glad to have him come back.”

“I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.”

“You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.”