Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!