Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates

Stories are life, " protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Gabriel smiled and his thumb grazed her cheek. She thought for a terrifying moment that he was going to kiss her

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds, " 1954

If you want something, but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

Leaf felt buried beneath the remains of their prior life, the ashes coating every part of who he thought he was in this community.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing anyone anything.