“I believe in fate because destiny can be changed.”

“The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.”

“He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world’s terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.”

“We only trust people we know,' says Martha Tennison...'If you're struggling to trust God, it may be because you don't really know God.”

“A great weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. Ben wasn’t what I wanted or needed. I wanted someone who knew me, the real me. I needed the person who knew all my secrets and fears. I wanted a person who lived and fought passionately. I wanted my best friend.”

“Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.”

“I do my best writing when there is a lot of laughing going on.”