I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.