“In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.”

“That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.”

“We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'”

“I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.”

“In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.”

“I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.”

“Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.”

“Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.”

“Yvette is a woman who looks like a church bell. Her copper body curves with purpose, angles on a chair as if from a tower overlooking a village by the sea. Her bones are strong everywhere, in her cheeks, her shoulders, her hands. They are made from something more durable like iron or brass. When she smiles, it is as if a bell has been struck, as if music has entered the world the way God intended: at noon by the sea.”

“I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.”

“When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe.”