A.M. Homes Quotes

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

It's my policy not to review funerals.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.

I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?

Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve.

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

Energy out of control is dangerous

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

Love? Love is for children and poor people...

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.