What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

When it rains, " her father said "it pours.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.