What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

God has allowed us to live in this time to do His works on earth.

The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.