I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to reveal your own unique beauty.

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

Brotherton So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart.

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.