No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.