Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

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

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

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

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.

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.