People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often, That was the only way to survive.

For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced a cliff fall first-hand.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917?

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

Mistakes are always mistakes, Or so I've heard them say... But if it teaches a lesson, The mistake will go away.

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.