“I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.”

“You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.”

“Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately...”

“Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is...”

“I always listen to you. Except when I don't.”

“Scent is the strongest tie to memory.”

“Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.”

“In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.”

“I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.”