I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The ones who do everything right, expecting the perfect outcome every time, and those who know better.

He made me feel wanted - good about myself, even. Like he immediately accepted me for me, no questions asked.

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything.

I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day.

Comb his Facebook page. See if he has a Twitter account. Follow up on every Google lead. I want to know what makes him tick, what makes him the man he is.

If Scotsmen don't wear anything under their kilts and they ride a horse, do you think they chafe their manbits?

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

That’s what you do for family. Anything.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.