Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

Autumn began to run. She felt an icy terror flood through her. He must have been waiting for her. He’d followed her all the way here. To this open, empty place. He knows where I live.

There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

it wasn’t until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us... Save my little girl...

Stop just cheering for others who are living their visions. Commit yourself to your own success and follow the steps required to achieve it.

Love is the best religion

If you follow your passion, the world will follow yours…

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

Knights would have probably liked refrigerator magnets.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.