When you truly love God, you obey Him.

You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.

A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

God calls me to write the truth of my life transparently so that others can learn from my hurt and heartache without taking the field trip themselves.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

Rage is essentially vulgar.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.