When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening . . . honor washes away the stench of shame.

That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.