You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.