On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.