Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

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.

When you rejects knowledge God can't help you because He can't help you with what you do not know.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

She woke to Terak's claws raking through her hair and her body deliciously sore, well-used in the best sense.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.