I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries.

I cannot live without books.

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.