Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

To the right person you will BE everything.

We have potential. Who needs medals? I'd rather have potential than medals any day.

Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!