All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.

At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

It feels good to come here and be a winning program.

White folks still in the lead.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.