I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

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.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

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

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

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