“There is still peace left in the world,and only those with beauty in their soul,care enough to be it.”

“Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it.”

“Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath?”

“My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.”

“This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.”

“I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.”

“You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.”

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

“Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.”

“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place with...”

“I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addi...”

“Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”