Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

I pray with my knees bow.

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.