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.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

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

hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

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.

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