Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.