You know you're in love when you open your heart knowing there’s a chance it may be broken but in opening your heart, you experience a love that you never dreamed possible.

There is only one power greater than fear, and that is faith. Use your faith to move the mountains that are standing in your way today!

True happiness is a gift from God, find your happy place and stay there.

Allow your pain to fuel your purpose. Some of the greatest opportunities you will ever experience in life will come from the greatest pain you have experienced in your life.

A woman is only as beautiful as she believes she is, if she can't convince herself, no one else can.

Writing is Amazing!When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom.

You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

I gather we're old friends.""By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!

The flower is here, so let's dance here.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.