"Everyone's story matters."

“A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature”

“So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?”

“Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.”

“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”