Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

When it rains, " her father said "it pours.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

now, never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man, safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.