The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

Sometimes we get a little tired of the burdens of life, but it is exhilarating to know that Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life’s journey.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters!

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

Ive been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.