The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

A lot of countries do fight to maintain or expand their share of global investment in manufacturing.

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.