I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. - Gabrielle Zevin

Violence should not always beget more violence.

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.