Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."