After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

War is not nice.

The day I met you is the day by which all others will be measured. — Levi Ian Bryson

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.