I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Let your teaching reveal the nature of the kingdom of God

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

Wrong. This was wrong. A list of words raced through his head. Apostate, heretic, pagan.Witch.

Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.