Shannon L. Alder

"To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time."

"I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it."

"If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer."

"Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We understand drowning. We understand being devalued. We understand being stranded alone on a beach. God made us this way so we would know where every lighthouse can be found and tell others how to find them. We were never meant to stand on the beach with you because every rescue we do rescues ourselves. We always go back to the sea because that is where driftwood belongs--forever searching for answers to our endless questions and sharing what we learned...(2012, Writer’s Conference)"

"Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways."

"It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood."

"God is the creator of all good plot twists!"

"Never underestimate the woman that holds God's pen."

"The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer."

"You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope."

"Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause."

"Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first."

"If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world."

"Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life."

"When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you."

"It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you."

"Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to."

"When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough."

"I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul."

"If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel."