“The only thing that could have possibly made him sexier was if he was holding a book. I was always a sucker for a fellow reader.” “That’s what I wrote into my books. It was what my characters would do, but my characters were braver than me.” “You’re in your head,” Gia said. “A stumble is not a fall.” “I wanted to learn how to have a great love story in my own life. I didn’t grow up with that in the traditional sense and I thought maybe I could pick it up in books. It didn’t work, so I thought maybe if I started writing them . .”