Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

Emma Donoghue

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness is all.

William Shakespeare

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart - not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

Sarah Dessen

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Barbara Boxer

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Samuel Johnson

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Junior Seau

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Amorous cat, alasYou too must yowl with your love...or even worse, without!

Yaha

Beauty? What's that?

Larry Wall