When you have seen as much of life as I have you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you togetherbut do so with all your heart.

Real isnt how you are made said the Skin Horse. Its a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long long time not just to play with but REALLY loves you then you become Real.Does it hurt asked the Rabbit. Sometimes said the Skin Horse for he was always truthful. When you are Real you dont mind being hurt. Does it happen all at once like being wound up he asked or bit by bit It doesnt happen all at once said the Skin Horse. You become. It takes a long time. Thats why it doesnt happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully kept. Generally by the time you are Real most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things dont matter at all because once you are Real you cant be ugly except to people who dont understand.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Now very much against her will she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then the blaze of faith in his eyes his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too yet when hed held her it had been as if she were something fragile something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had never wondering if she could take it--hed known she was as strong has he was.

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy it is being unwanted unloved and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for loneliness despair and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. Theres a hunger for love as there is a hunger for God.

Im a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Its the imperfections that make things beautiful

The voice of Love seemed to call to me but it was a wrong number.