It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore.

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

One second she’s all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.

All because I fell in love with a madman.

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.

Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.

Cole radiated that cool, bad boy sort of confidence—the kind that left most women flustered and ready.

The most effective and permanent way to silence fears is to face them.

Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.