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“I put my freezing hands on his cheeks and instead of pushing them away, he said, “Ahh, feels good.” I laughed and said, “That’s because you’re coldhearted.” He put my hands in his coat pockets and said in a voice so soft I wondered if I heard him right, “For everyone else, maybe. But not for you.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“God was reminding me to endure. To trust in him in the midst of so much discouragement. Something in my soul bowed before that invitation. And I would bear the weight of the burden before me.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Hidden Prince

“He had two stories to live. In the first, God had saved his eye. In the second, God had taken his eye. Both were true.... It was up to him which story he chose to live out every day. The lost eye or the saved eye. The blind man or the sighted one. The God who had abandoned him or the God who had saved him.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Hidden Prince

“Grace means allowing room for someone to grow.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Hidden Prince