It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.