People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.