Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

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.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

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.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.