Father said conflict develops the character

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

We will have rings and things and fine array