There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.