Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I can’t!” Maggie was now standing on the wall. “Past the boundary wall is a bad place. I’m not allowed in the bad place.

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”Can goddesses pray?

Turn your doubts to question turn your question to prayers turn your prayers to God.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else.

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.