Happiness is found when no one is looking

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

the cross had slipped back onto my chest. I unclasped it and after wrapping the chain around the metal, tucked it into my bra

Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Most of my influences are from the past.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.