We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.