Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little

And being an obsessive man he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had!

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.