"I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone."

"I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone."

"Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world."

"Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people."

"Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me."

"It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then."

"I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex."

"I'll bet he light in the window."

"That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."

"...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well."

"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

"I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response."

"He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone."

"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."

"There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard."