Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it.He leaves, and I break.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.