We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

Those who work hard will succeed, While those who slack at their work will be in need

And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.