I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .