It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

what you don't know, you don't miss

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

I can tell you is all nine of the people here [on debates] would make an infinitely better commander in chief than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.