Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences.

— K. Martin Beckner

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

— K. Martin Beckner

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

— K. Martin Beckner

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

— K. Martin Beckner

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

— K. Martin Beckner

That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.

— K. Martin Beckner

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

— K. Martin Beckner

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

— K. Martin Beckner

Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worst things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

— K. Martin Beckner

You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.

— K. Martin Beckner