“for my characters to endure.           Chapter”

“Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.”

“I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect."Chapter 12, pg 213”

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”

“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. ”