Emotions 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...

That’s good. And speaking of spelling, tell me — do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

Gifts of the heart can’t be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I’ll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.

I knew I wanted the ending of the story to be poignant and heart-felt, and secondly, because I didn’t know if I would be able to do that, since my previous novels hadn’t been good...

Silence is Holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.

The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because...

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all…

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they’d once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

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

E’ la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte mia. E chiamatemi pure pazzo, o sognatore o quel che vi pare, io credo che tutto sia...

Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.

The next time you’re mad at me, talk to me,’ he said. ‘Don’t shut me out. I don’t like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

I learned what is obvious to a child. 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...

They got here on a Sunday, … And by Tuesday we had them in a new house.

It’s not rocket science. You just gotta put them in the right order.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he’d been lucky enough to find...

I might kiss you.I might be bad at it.That’s not possible.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, or even when...

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as...

You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they’re divorced. It’s like you grow up knowing that you’re missing something important that everyone else has,...

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

I don’t write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she’d ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she’d never experience that...

The two of you, there’s something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything–the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on...

I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump...

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the...

One of my father’s RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. “I did this,” he would say to me, “and you should do it, too. I say, why do...

You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

I suppose more than anything, it’s the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I’m...

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me,” I began. “Meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” I hesitated, know that if I stopped...

It all comes down to who’s by your side.

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together...