Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.