When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

Growth dwells not in standing one’s ground, anyone can do that. Personal growth comes from reaching past insecurities with a sincere effort to acquire an understanding that does not mirror your own.

The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.

When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly…paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn’t a vanishing mirage

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.