If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever.

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.