I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

You'll beat this. I know it doesn't feel like it, but you will. You're a survivor." "I don't want to survive it." "I know that, too," Nell had said. "And it's fair enough. But sometimes we don't have a choice.