I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

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.

And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.

She turned her can'ts into can's and her dreams into plans.

God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.