Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

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.

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

It’s a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

The legislature are a little more difficult to educate than the governor is.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.