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

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

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

Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.