Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place – because we become better people in it.
On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it’s not gender that makes a family; it’s love. You don’t need a mother and a father; you don’t necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who’s got your back.
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father’s shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.
You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you’re ready to send your novel off to an agent.
Life can change in an instant; don’t be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn’t be doing – such is the nature of us.
Prayer is like water – something you can’t imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
There are certain things I do not talk about.
The Lord turned water into wine. All I’m suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
I grew up in a household where we didn’t really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you’d accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.
As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It’s always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
Close a door, and you’d still feel a breeze through the window.
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.
How could you beat an enemy you couldn’t see?
He gently touched his mother’s cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.