I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.