I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

they have seen the likes of you before, they may be intrigued by the looks of you, but they know that you-like everyone else-will leave them in the end.

Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.