The truth is in the details.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.