People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world. The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

Is it still okay to make fun of schizophrenics? There's a little voice in my head that says no.

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

Every girl likes to be thought of and made to feel special.

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.