Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.