Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?” I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. “Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

Did you hear that? I'm special.

Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex

You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out."- zach

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all the time can find disadvantages and it's own consequences.

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.