“How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.”
“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.”
“I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.”
“As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.”
“Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.”
“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”
“Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping”
“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”
“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”
“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”
“America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.”
“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”
“But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.”
“Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.”
“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”
“I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.”
“I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.”
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
“Love burns across the infinitude.”
“If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”
“The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)”
“What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.”
“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”
“I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.”
