Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.
The man was dying to please. George Harlow was a consultant, he informed Bobby as he hastily led
I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.
You can’t change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.
Harris Reed: Ah, you caught me.Bobby: And now's the part when I throw you back.
Elementary school. I’d worked hard to find the apartment, hoping that a nice unit,
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where the...
Irresponsible is only irresponsible if you fail. Succeed, however; and irresponsible quickly becomes merely unorthodox.
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
Whomever speaks first gives up some power.
Warn a kid with oppositional defiant disorder not to do something, and you’ve pretty much guaranteed the crime.
Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!
We’re about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.
We are all a little bit broken, she tells me (the reason she doesn’t sleep at night?), but we all work on fixing ourselves.
Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that’s what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. T...
Oh no. I don’t do children. They’re small, needy, easily destroyed. Let’s be honest. I’ve come a long way from my family history,