Did not he, then, who, if he had died at that time, would have died in all his glory, owe all the great and terrible misfortunes into which he subsequently fell to the prolongation of his life at that time?

None of them was willing to be a girl, he said. You can see why not. I know, right? I don't blame them, she said with a hard edge to her voice. Being a girl is the pits, trust me.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.   I

How easy it is to invent humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds--who used to be a passionate Yeats fan--is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point of view, but that was then and social attitudes were different then, and in actual fact Yeats is dead.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.

I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.

Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.

Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.