She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.

Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

I just want to thank everybody I have ever met in my entire life.

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

You can recognize the Spirit of Christ within you when you speak to one another or speak of another person with a warm smile instead of with a frown or scowl.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard