Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.