She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?

I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.

When life gives you someone very special, you don’t have to dream anymore

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

Don't think, just feel.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.