"The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease"

“We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.”

“Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.”

“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.”

Source : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.52, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.”

“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.”

“As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.”

“I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.”

“You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.”