Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.