I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?