I like fish, " chirruped Tunstell."Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?""Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.

Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.

Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.