“Dreams are nervy thingsall it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die. ”

“A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.”

“Now listen. Faith is like oxygen. It keeps you afloat at all times. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you dont. but when you do need it you better be practiced at having faith, otherwise it wont wor...”

“For six days I didnt get up except to make a cup of tea, or fry an egg, or lie in the skinny bath gazing at a cracked ceiling. The days punished me with their slowness, piling up the hours on me, s...”

“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Id found him not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids t...”

“I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didnt I knew what I preferred, and that wasI didnt want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”