ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.

AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because that’s what friends do. We’ve been through a lot together, so here’s to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!

AMELIA: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah

Women can do everything men can do the rest.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

I'm a sensitive guy, and I'm already one of my harshest critics, so if other people are hard on me, it just amplifies how hard I already am on myself.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!