“In any serious relationship, if you don't gather your partner's opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you're just storing up trouble for the future.”

“You're presence here has caused a fresh buzz amoung the young women. You need to find one who suits you before you're too old.”

“Only bad shepherds use entrances other than the door. Didn't your mother teach you anything?""Yes, she did. That you're a troublemaker.”

“Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.”

“I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.”

“A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home”

“I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.”