Nora Roberts is cool.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.