Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

Susan had told him once that bravery was when you wanted to pee your pants, but you kept fighting

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

Small fruit is better than big words.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

Netflix is something I watch.

Initially there's absolutely nothing.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.