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

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.