There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.