Do you know how long I've wanted you? You're like sunlight and water and air to me. All you need to do is walk across my line of sight and my whole world lights up.

Preparing and serving food had always been a joy, for it made her appreciate the abundance of the world.

Kate, I can't live my life in the shadow of your fears.

It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

Music could do that, create a magical oasis where nothing else mattered except hearing the next line of the score.

If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.

It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.