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Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart.
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.
In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.
I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.
He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.
Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
I love you, hugs & kisses, smoochies galore, licks, nibbles & assorted gropages!! -Aisling said to Drake
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.
Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.
It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.
If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.
Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?
He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for this little adventure. No more. Good-bye, Aspen.
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.
I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.
Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.
You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.
I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.
It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
I will bear this pain for you,” he swore. “If one of us has to bleed, it will be me. It’ll always be me.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!
Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known.
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.
Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450
The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.