Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

...you look at me like an emergency

If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, you’ll find a silver lining.