I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

It still hurts, " she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.

Gratitude is not just a word

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.