There's nothing you can tell me that will change how I feel about you. Nothing. Because that isn't you. It's never been you. You're the woman I've come to know. The woman I love.

God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

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.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.