You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Acceptance, " she told the young woman. "God is watching over him." The small room was quiet, and Emily felt her muscles relax as she prayed.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.