Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?