People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry. ~Mark Gianni

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

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

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

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.