Kessa's Quotes

#1. She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is ... seventy-three!

Steven Levenkron

#2. From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

Steven Levenkron

#3. The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

Pope John Paul II

#4. He'd given me his heart a long time ago - and now I was giving it back, not because I didn't want it. But because I wanted to share it. With him. Forever. - Kiersten

Rachel Van Dyken

#5. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.

Steven Levenkron

#7. Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself.

Jessie Burton

#8. Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Nikolai Gogol

#9. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.

Roger Morris

#11. The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him.

Joan Kilby

#12. The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Scot McKnight

#13. Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.

Steven Levenkron