All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.

If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-