I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.