Who better to confess to than a dying woman?

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

Trust no one, and let none believe.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.