That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.''Quiet, Sage, ' he said. 'I’ll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.

The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion

The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.