That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

Do yourself a favor, become your own savior.

I used to work at UPS I got fired for unloading packages into my car.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.