What a man loves may be his ruin, but what a man ruins he can never truly love.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

The mystery of grace is the power of God.

To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Together, we'd take crazy to a whole new level. ~Tod

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.