The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

When it rains, " her father said "it pours.

And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

When God speaks faith has to connect to His Word because if you allow only your feelings to connect no root can be formed.

I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.