Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

He’s an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I’ve slept with.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.

Be as you wish to seem.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.

Minicars produce miniprofits.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.