Karen Kingsbury

“Real love never fails.”

“More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.”

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

“But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.”

“I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.”

“And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.”

“The truth was this: Love is a decision.”

“I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.”

“The general market wants what I do.”

“I write about true-life type things.”

“For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.”

“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”

“My characters are not plastic.”

“God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.”

“You're gifted to do something.”

“Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.”

“Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.”

“As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.”

“I always knew I wanted to be a writer.”

“I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.”