The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.

She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook, filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.