Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know.

Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed.Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The door is shut?

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?