Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.