The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.