I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor.

The darkness was memory.

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.

I hate being a teenager.""Why?""Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.

Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine.

There’s no fool​like an illiterate fool.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.