Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
We writers are resilient souls.
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.