But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.