I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of

There ain't no happy endings for half-bloods." Ryder ~ Darkest Before Dawn #3 The Veil Series

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.