Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, 'I believe in you.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

Silly Felix, hate and love are the flip sides of the same tarnished coin.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.