“When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.”

“Sometimes the contradictions in their lives are so intense they seem manufactured for teaching life lessons, but it's hard to keep up with what you're supposed to be learning in that terrible moment between defiance and despair when all your energy is going into figuring out why it took so long to name the thing that's driving you crazy. At those moments, the best I can do is keep quiet and say a little prayer, which is what I did.”

“What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight.”

“Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.”

“What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”

“I know once you repent, Jesus himself isn't big on punishment, but according to all the Old Testament stories, I ever heard, his was not above it”

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”