I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.