sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.

You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.