"When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee."

“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

“We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush”

“When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag”

“God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.”

Source : Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

“...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.”

“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”

Source : Scott Heim (2008). “We Disappear: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

“There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.”

“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”