I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle

What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?" "His posture," Hannah muttered. "What about it?" "He slouches." "He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.