A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

It's more than you think it can be," she heard herself say. "It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if...but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there.

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

I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

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