I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.