You’re a good guy, Cam.” “No, I’m not.” He exhaled deeply and his breath was warm against my cheek. “I’m only good with you.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.