If you leave without me, I’ll just follow you. You can’t stop me, Cassie. How are you going to stop me?” I shrug helplessly, fighting back tears. “Shoot you, I guess.” “Like you shot the Crucifix Soldier?” The words hit me like a bullet between the shoulder blades. I whirl around and fling open the door. He flinches, but stands his ground. “How do you know about him?” Of course, there’s only one way he could know. “You read my diary.” “I didn’t think you were going to live.” “Sorry to disappoint you.” “I guess I wanted to know what happened—” “You’re lucky I left the gun downstairs or I would shoot you right now. Do you know how creepy that makes me feel, knowing you read that? How much did you read?” He lowers his eyes. A warm red blush spreads across his cheeks. “You read all of it, didn’t you?” I’m totally embarrassed. I feel violated and ashamed. It’s ten times worse than when I first woke up in Val’s bed and realized he had seen me naked. That was just my body. This was my soul. I punch him in the stomach. There’s no give at all; it’s like I hit a slab of concrete. “I can’t believe you,” I shout. “You sat there—just sat there—while I lied about Ben Parish. You knew the truth and you just sat there and let me lie!
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PHILIP YANCEY We're still a strong presence in the community and a great source for not only do-it-yourself needs ... YANCEY CASEY One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton an... PHILIP YANCEY I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer Dav... PHILIP YANCEY Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it.... PHILIP YANCEY God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less. PHILIP YANCEY Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gos... PHILIP YANCEY We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most ... PHILIP YANCEY [...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt a... PHILIP YANCEY God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme myste... PHILIP YANCEY Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be ... PHILIP YANCEY She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a consci... YANCEY LITTLE Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model ... PHILIP YANCEY Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. PHILIP YANCEY When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'... PHILIP YANCEY What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian p... PHILIP YANCEY If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. ... PHILIP YANCEY Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. PHILIP YANCEY the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau... PHILIP YANCEY Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not... PHILIP YANCEY As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me... PHILIP YANCEY Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at... PHILIP YANCEY As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ... PHILIP YANCEY I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ... PHILIP YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe... FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively. FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their... FRED YANCEY Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He... PHILIP YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference. JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball. JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie... JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin... JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ... JANAY YANCEY Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. PHILIP YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t... WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us. YANCEY LITTLE Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities. RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues... RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav... RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st... RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of... RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ... RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies. RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a... RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi... RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame... RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon... RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect... RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An... RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;... RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ... RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel... RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr... RICK MORANIS