When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.