That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Only your calling can give you fulfillment

You have to lose something to gain anything.

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.