I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

Anything worth doing has risks.” Hortense paused. “And believe me, this is worth doing.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – James Baldwin.

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan – no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

Young’uns!” Mrs. P. interrupted. “No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!

No” was most definitely Faolan’s favorite word. “No” and “More milk.

I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97.

He didn’t know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn’t want.

I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. – Digger.