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"Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working."
"you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand."
"Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that."
"I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about."
"I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids."
"This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change."
"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
"But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood."
"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."
"Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly... perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant."
"It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life."
"Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic."
"The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge."
"Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped."
"When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving."
"Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never."
"Adults are the real monsters."
"I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first."
"If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones."
"I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way."