My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand..

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned..

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general..

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex..

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to f….

Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear….

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here..

Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something ….

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every eveni….

She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: thi….

Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do yo….

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory ….

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs..

I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A….

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. Th….

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework ass….

You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply o….

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle ….

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see..

Try to be a whole person.Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both..

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventu….