“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.”

It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

My heart woke me crying last night how can I help I begged my heart said-write the book.

We have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view – live fully.

What draws you to her, tell me what you like so I can practice.

What I miss most is how you loved me. But what I didn’t know was, how you loved me, that had so much to do with the person I was.

Borders are man-made they divide us physically don’t let them make us turn on each other – we are not enemies.

The thing worth holding onto would not have let go.

People go but how they left always stays.

Even though we were both under the same roof of that coffee shop. I was still solar systems away from you.

My tongue is sour from the hunger of missing you.

I have never known anything more quietly loud than my anxiety.

Losing you was the becoming of myself.

Despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives- sunflowers.

Fall in love with your solitude.

On the last day of love, my heart cracked inside my body.

We need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.