It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one

Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect

Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

I would surround myself with people who know what they're doing.

Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.