In the next instance Graham claimed her lips in a demanding, yet gentle kiss

Don't ever apologize for being a little rough with me!

I felt the pull toward you the first time we met.

Lifting his gaze to Graham, he reached over and cupped his cheek. "I'm not much on sharing emotions and crap.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

My dreams tell me who I am.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.

I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.