I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.

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

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.