“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

“when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me”

“Violence is my last option.”

“Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”

“But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.”

“Do you know what the worst part of losing him is? The regret -- that he left before we could somehow find each other again. And now all I think about are the things I wish I'd told him before he died.”

“Losing all hope was freedom.”