Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.