I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.

From the stars, to the stars.

Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!

A trickle of blood slid down his arm.He felt nothing. He only saw it.Because nothing hurt like missing her.He suspected nothing ever would

The power behind words lies with the person.

It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.

It's much easier to hate a memory. I would know.

Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.

Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.

You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

A boy who'd thrived in the shadows.Now he had to live in the light.To live . . . fiercely.To fight for every breath.

Know that once we have received Jesus, we can’t continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.

True creation requires authority and authenticity.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.