She’d vowed to be braver and take more risks, but this seemed out of her league. Because sometimes what you wanted the most was the one thing you were most afraid to get.

Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she’d used as a crutch for so many years, but with a deep, aching tenderness she felt might just kill her.

He wasn’t looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he’d sold his off long ago

Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.

He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop.

Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desireunleashing in one terrible flood.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he’d do it. For her.

GRACE means God Redeems And Christ Empowers!

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Give me B movies or give me death!

We worship education but hate learning.

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.