He would only be here one more night.And then back on deployment, whispered the dark part of my soul. He might never come back. You might be the last woman he ever has.

His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered?

Icy fingers walked down my spine, and I realized I was trembling. I wanted this to stop. Wanted Jas to stop before he made this whole situation a million times worse, but I couldn’t speak.

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.