Quotes from Charles Martin

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.

If that summer taught me anything, it was this: girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it.

Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.

Music cuts people free." A pause. "It silences the thing that's trying to kill us.

You and I... we never really finished our conversation, but I can tell you 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 no way to live.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Broken people just need piecing back together.

You can't tell a dead man you're sorry.

Hatred and anger does not kill hatred and anger.

Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that.

Just because something is broken doesn't mean it's no good. Doesn't mean you throw it away. It just means it's broken, and broken is okay. I wanted to tell her that broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken.