I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.