It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option.

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

I've never seen so much suicide...The Bible is full of hope.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.