I’m sure you think that I don’t understand what you’re going through, but I do. It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and...

I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard...

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...

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

…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,...

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

As for writing the second novel, the pressure was immense, but hey, what’s life without a little challenge? I just sat down and forced myself to write and in the end, it sold as many...

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon...

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and...

Would you just stay with me?Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We’re already fighting!Well that’s what we do! We fight! You tell me when I’m being an arrogant son of a bitch and...

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the...

More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he’d seen on Pastor Harris’s face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn’t help feeling like an...

We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.

He’d lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

They were inlove, but they hadn’t been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

It’s always exciting to sell a project to Hollywood, but it’s scary at the same time because I give up all creative control.

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

I have no preference on writing in contemporary or historical periods-that decision is based on the story.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.

Yes… it wasn’t over, it still isn’t over.

He wasn’t into one-night stands, he wasn’t into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn’t into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new...

No one ever said life was fair

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and...

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of...

I’ve never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it’s not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If...

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

It’s very difficult to find someone when you don’t know the parent’s names or have a street address,

I have no desire to write screenplays-at heart, I’m a novelist.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…

That’s why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because...

I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it

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...

That’s why I don’t tell people about us. They wouldn’t understand, and 1 don’t feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you,...

Absolutely not. I’m an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I’m incompetent, too. Because I’m actually pretty good at what I do.” -Jo

Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary.

You make one error, you pause, stumble, hesitate too long, don’t hesitate long enough, run a word together, hit your ‘S’ too hard, hit your ‘T’ too hard–[the director is] like: ‘Um, could you please...

I’m Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We’re very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as...

Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.