“Stop thinking with your head, Alyssa.”

“You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.”Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.”

“Alyssa Montgomery was damned the moment she met Evan Beauman.”

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

“Just as you cannot stop a bird from flying over your head, in the same way you cannot stop the devil from dropping ideas into your mind. However, in the same way that you can stop a bird from building a nest on your head, you can stop the Enemy’s suggestions from wandering without restriction and taking root in your mind.”

“The quickest way to letting go of all your fears...is to stop storing them in your head.”