in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

you were born as an origional don't die as a copy

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.