Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)