If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

After I finish PO5, I would like to get a dog. I want to be able to spend more time with my pet, and I don't have the time right now.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.