It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany

He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.