“But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.”

“Makes sense," Cal said. "A bike needs to be taken care of just like a woman. Treat her right and she'll bring you happiness you never knew existed. Lock her away and she'll make you suffer a worse fate than hell.”

“The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.”

“Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.”

“To be human is to be beautifully flawed”

“I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission”

“As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.”