
“Author and counselor Dennis Rainey of FamilyLife explains that women are traditionally more verbal than men. I鈥檝e heard him say men usually speak about 10,000鈥20,000 words a day, while women speak 30,000鈥50,000 words per day鈥攚ith gusts up to 125,000! That鈥檚 why a lot of guys come home from a busy day at work, hit the sofa, and don鈥檛 say a word. They can鈥檛. They鈥檝e already used up their quota.”
― Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide To Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University
― Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide To Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Oh, how I wished I could speak. How I wished for thumbs. I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, 鈥淭his is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!鈥 But I couldn鈥檛 say that. I could only look at him.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,鈥 he said.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder

“We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama.”
― Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
― Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
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