Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?