It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

People like us will never really understand, Evanelle said. We fell in love with the men we were supposed to be with right off the bat. But women with broken hearts, they change.

Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.

Compare yourself only with Jesus.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care.

Songwritng is what I do.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

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