“Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering…and the accepting.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“From out of your heart, you speak." -Emma, When Crickets Cry” — Charles Martin Character Copy Share Image
“What can’t be forgiven?’” I nodded. “It’s words. Words you can’t take back” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“I quit screaming at God a long time ago, ’cause I reckon he knows a thing or two about hurt.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.” — Charles Martin Medicine Copy Share Image
“I'm not leaving you. Not going it alone. Not looking at the memory of you everytime I close my eyes.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. "To be known.” — Charles Martin Fear Copy Share Image
“Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.” — Charles Martin Cats Copy Share Image
“The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a… — Charles Martin Hats Copy Share Image
“this…living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn’t mean you’re half alive. It means you’re half dead. And…that’s… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart"...It derives no benefit from the blood it… — Charles Martin Courageous Copy Share Image
“I had to let her go. She's not coming back. The distance is too great. The mountain between us is the one… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the… — Charles Martin Books Copy Share Image
“Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river.… — Charles Martin Choice Copy Share Image
“If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were… — Charles Martin Acting Copy Share Image
“Ashley tried to speak. Tried again and still could not find the words. Finally she wiped her eyes, pressed her ear to… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that’s God’s little girl, baggage and all,… — Charles Martin Little girl Copy Share Image
“Thinking about life and how short it is. How we’re always just a breath away from overturned in the ditch with a… — Charles Martin Moments Copy Share Image
“If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is… — Charles Martin Boys Copy Share Image
“Love has its own communication. It's the language of the heart, while it has never been transcribed, has no alphabet, and can't… — Charles Martin Communication Copy Share Image
“What do you want in a woman, in life?' I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to describe one another in a few… — Charles Martin Cowboy Copy Share Image
“You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?' I nodded. 'Well, love is like that.… — Charles Martin Darkness Copy Share Image
“I think when two people really love each other...way down deep...like where the souls sleep and dreams happen, where pain can't live… — Charles Martin Dreams Copy Share Image
“The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of… — Charles Martin Books Copy Share Image
“As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I’d ever been cut free.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they… — Charles Martin History Copy Share Image
“What I'm trying to say, and not doing a very good job at, is...will you ride the river with me?” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“so, the water that would cleanse me was not water from my head—where I’d learned to rationalize my indifference. But water from… — Charles Martin Water Copy Share Image
“...but maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise up and bite… — Charles Martin Life Copy Share Image
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