Lurlene McDaniel quotes:

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry. ~Mark Gianni

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

I can be around kids if I need to be.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

I have always been amazed guys read these books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

You want to attach emotionally.

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.