God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

They tell us, love, that eternity awaits.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.