Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.