But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer. . . well, it’s like an inner fire … - Dean Koontz

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I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me. ” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

Dean Koontz

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer. . . well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.

Away, Book, Fire, Inner, Write, Writing

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If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

Giving, Gossamer, Grateful, Hanging, Love, People

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

Beauty, Joy, Love, Taken, War, Zone

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

Endured, May, Memorial, Redemption, Scar

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

Faith, Intellectual, Taken

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

Accomplish, Breed, Doe, Except, Worry