Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.