Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.

You cannot trust yourself, ’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

God always wants us to see things from heaven's prospective. You may not be doing much to your community but what you are is so important. You are significant.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that’s what life is like, that’s what interests me.

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].

It made you happy...

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

You've got to learn your instrument.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?