I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature?I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

Live every day, not by spending time, but by investing all the way.

Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Total commitment to family and total commitment to career is possible, but fatiguing.