If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, " Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me?

Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.