Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?

Always ignore hateful attitude and rude behavior of the people. They are powerless without your response.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.

When only a little can be done, doing it becomes the greatest you can do.

If you know how to live, even death is good news

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.