Restraint is the better part of beauty.

empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.

To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.

The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."~R. Alan Woods [1998]

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part – you had already altered me so completely.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.