I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world’s system.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

Every Monday morning is new hope.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.