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There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

In the end, and, if this is, indeed, my end, remember this: Christmas is the story of a Father reaching out to His children. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Maybe that’s why I’ve always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist – one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He’s up to.

Righteous indignation is the alibi of mobs and murderers.

Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

There’s a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that’s why it’s been such a long time since I’ve been really happy.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

I can’t use these things,” McKenna said, setting down her chopsticks. “Can I have a fork?” Ben’s brow furrowed. “But you are Chinese.” “Only my genes,” McKenna said. Ben looked at her pants. “Your jeans are from China?” McKenna shook her head. “Never mind.

Grief isn’t a luxury; it’s an appropriate response to loss. You don’t just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist, it only gets worse.

I once heard a writer say, ‘It’s easy to write a novel, you just slit your wrist and let it bleed on the pages.’ She was right... Sophocles and Freud believed that we are defined by our fears. There’s a lot of truth to that. When you share your greatest fears, your vulnerability, we bond in that honesty. We connect with each other and we don’t feel so alone. And that’s what books are really about. Connecting.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it’s the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom.

It’s been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation – rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn’t come from desire – at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s kind of the same as being president of the United States – it’s not gonna happen.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.

Unfortunately, large cities don’t have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.

Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they’re gone.

Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.

We always assume that there’s tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that’s why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

It’s been said that every new beginning in some other beginning’s end.

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It’s too late, it’s too late. You can’t come back.

I’ve always believed that we don’t choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves.” “Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn’t the world punish us enough?” “Why wouldn’t we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It’s cause and effect.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don’t see this as a good thing”.

Michael, I think we need to break up.” If.

It’s easy to hate the game when your losing.

Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they’re gone.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath – it’s to hope and dream and love.

All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Their relationship was as one-sided as a pizza.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can’t change.

All women like chocolate, it’s like female catnip.

We chain ourselves to those we don’t forgive.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else’s.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key.

The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

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