If you knew what those {pork rinds} did to your body, you wouldn't eat them.''If you knew when the last time I ate was, you wouldn't bother me.

Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you...

You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees.

You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.''I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a...

...I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish,...

A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

I wonder if you've got a minute.I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of...

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

You get through it, you just never get over it

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps.Are you, I said. Then tell me how.You close...

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first...

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them.Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. Maybe you've got that backward, he said....

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way...

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?Make them stay.And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?Ellie shrugged. I don't know.Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave...

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.