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.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

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

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

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

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."