“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.”

“I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.”

“What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?”

“Never underestimate the passion of a lonely mind.”

“God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.”

“Nothing happens if we don’t make it happen. We can’t get the job we don’t apply for. We can’t date the guy we don’t text back. We can’t have good mental health if we don’t take action to break out of limiting thought patterns and anxious drama loops.”

“Passion does not translate easily into good income.”

“Sometimes you hold onto things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go.”