We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.