“Pain is our most intimate encounter. It lives on the very inside of us, touching everything that makes us. It claims your bones, it masters your muscles, it reels in your strength, and you never se...”

“YOU WERE MY FAVORITE THING AND IN IMAGINATION YOUR DEATH WILL NOT EXIST IT IS ALL 'AS IF' FROM NOW ONAS IF YOU ARE NOT GONEYOU WILL BE THE GIRL BESIDE MENEVER MORE THAN A HEARTBEAT LENGTH AWAYTHE W...”

“That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one.It's unnatural, thatreversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole...”

“No one ever said youve got to prepare to be hated. Youve got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.”

“Don't you wannabe agreat baseball player? He sighed back into the wall. I want to be a great man, Fielding. And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, ho...”

“As we walked home, I knew from far away the trees would've looked nice, the grass would've looked green, and we would've looked like just a couple of boys walking home, armed with Midwest love and ...”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”

“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”