Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Happiness envelopes the heart.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Laughter lights up the darkness.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

There is always a path to our target

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.