My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

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.

still, all we need is a heart of joy that earnestly seeks His will and His plan.

To write you into poems, and make you unerasable.

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns." The Apolloite groom to Rafael

Danger is real, fear is a choice

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.