We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.