I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.