Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

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

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.