The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.
I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?
It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that.
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.