When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.