After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

He was used to being playful with women, teasing while keeping ultimate control. With Luna, he felt like a berserk marauder. He couldn't even spell control, much less utilize it.

The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

love means breaking all the rules

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.

Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

I read Pushing the Limit and Dare You To by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now Im a believer.

It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.

Why does it take a man's attention to make me see anything good about myself?

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.