Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

I empty myself with light Until I become morning.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.