Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living