The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Spoiled. That’s all it’s about – can’t live without this, can’t live without that. You can live without anything you weren’t born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it’s a...

But I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to...

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

She breathed deeply of the freedom she found in Mattie’s presence. Here she had no choice but to be herself. The carefully erected decoys she was constantly shuffling and changing to fit the situation were...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

They all trying to say something with music that you can’t say with plain talk. There ain’t really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying...

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn’t notice it in myself.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me....

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot....

You can’t teach talent. You can’t put in what God left out – but you can teach confidence.

Home. It’s being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as...

Lord keep her safe since you can’t keep her sane.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

You don’t repay kindness with needless cruelty.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I’m willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.