For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Take all of me, ” he said against her mouth.

You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.