When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.