My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

We have history, you and I. You just don’t know it yet.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.