Laurel Lea quotes:

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

(Home) is you in things.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.