Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of man

We only betray ourselves.

There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.

A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.

Try to be a whole person.Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.