"[Grace talking to Billy.] 'It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad,' she said. 'It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so."
Catherine Ryan Hyde
"Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time."
Bruce Springsteen
"Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope."
Unknown
Inspiration
God did not enter the world of our nostalgic, silent-night, snow-blanketed, peace-on-earth, suspended reality of  Christmas. God slipped into the vulnerability of skin and entered our violent and disturbing world.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
",m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand."
John Bude
"Do not despair. Have faith. It is going to work out and you will be delivered."
Unknown
Inspiration
...Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid.'And you're not stupid.'Not as far as I can tell'...
M.K. McClintock
Inspiration
Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous, their animal companion’s condition may deteriorate too.
Colleen M. Flanagan
"I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough."
Joseph Heller
"No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men."
Rose Wilder Lane
"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue."
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Inspiration
When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.
Steven Magee