Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

From personal adversity comes great art

She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance.

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

Seeing him again had been a gut punch.

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.