Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Plain as a pike-staff.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.