Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.