By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.

How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.