Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Comfortable? Don't be. I believe in those moments where we grow comfortable is where we stop growing, and in order to keep evolving, God slips the rug from beneath our feet and makes us look up.

It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.

Gabriel drew the strength up his calves and thighs to spin himself in a dizzying turn. Most angels didn’t take the time to train their legs, but Gabriel wasn’t like most angels.

Fears can be a healthy thing, they give you something to conquer

Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.

Only when she smiled at him was he finally able to relax.

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.