“That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.”

“I hold the bottle out into the rain and watch as the steady flow slowly fills it. When there is enough, enough that Beth can clearly see, I close the bottle and hand it to her.She raises a skeptica...”

“Jocks usually aren't smart. Their muscles feast on their brains.”

“Here's the thing- I love you and I love her, but I swear to God I'll kick your ass if you hurt her.”

“I need you.""I'm here."And we sit in silence.”

“Theres a power I only feel when Im with Isaiah. A boldness Ive never possessed in my life. Never in a million years would I have imagined Id be the girl whod say she was falling fast for a boy befo...”

“The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23”

“A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin”

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”