None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

Run first, ' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.

I chew the inside of my lip, considering for a second what it would be like to slap this skinny little witch right across her tight-lipped little face. ~Kelly about Suni

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.