The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

Part of her had hoped he would say something like, "I want you, Katie. You belong to me now. I'll take care of you." He didn't say that. But his answer was the best one, really. "You belong to Christ, Katie.

But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; …" Luke 1:30 How like the Lord to identify our fears and hasten to ease them. Notice that Gabriel called her by name: "Mary, you have nothing to fear" (MSG). God knew her name just as he knows ours.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

He who is educated by anxiety is educated by possibility… When such a person, therefore, goes out from the school of possibility, and knows more thoroughly than a child knows the alphabet that he demands of life absolutely nothing, and that terror, perdition, annihilation, dwell next door to every man, and has learned the profitable lesson that every dread which alarms may the next instant become a fact, he will then interpret reality differently…

an adventure that every human being has to live through, learning to be anxious so as not to be ruined either by never having been in anxiety or by sinking into it. Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep. The pain has weaned me... Into Thy hands, O Lord, into Thy hands...