I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

As Christians, we're supposed to be the salt of the earth, not the filler.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.