Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight.

It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers

A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.

Be joyful in tribulations.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me.

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.

For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.