Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out...

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

A few people have said I should let you win