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“Weren’t all addicts looking for relief from some invisible pain? Weren’t all people?”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“But for me, faith is about love. It’s something I can rely on. It’s something that gives me a sense of belonging. It’s there, whether I feel it or not, even in times of despair. When you feel completely alone and at sea, a short prayer can give you the strength to go somewhere inside yourself to find love.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

“Growth is rarely glamorous; instead, it’s forged in the rocky hills of hardship, the valleys of suffering, and the foggy paths of waiting. It’s marked by a gradual movement toward Christ in the middle of the messy, mundane moments of life. If you expect life to be perfect, you will be let down every time. But if you embrace the struggle, eyes glued to Jesus, you will surrender to your Savior and find in him the perfection you long for. He’s working in your waiting, creating a masterpiece out of your mess. In other words: life won’t ever be easy, but God is always good.”
― Gretchen Saffles, The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith

“sometimes she still feels as if she’s a mistaken jigsaw piece who found her way into the wrong puzzle.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“What is it that makes a life into what it becomes?”
― Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness

“A difficult childhood is like an invisible enemy, I thought. You never know when it will strike.”
― Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness

“Yes, but the antidote to loneliness isn’t just being around random people indiscriminately, the antidote to loneliness is emotional security.”
― Benedict Wells, The End of Loneliness

“Well, I guess you can’t always rely on feeling in love. That comes and goes. It’s a decision, too, you know. You have to look after it.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“They say that time heals, yet the ache still caught his breath. Grief is often invisible to the outside world—Fred was like still water whose reflection mirrored the sun but concealed dark and murky depths underneath. He often wondered how his body still held together when his soul had broken into a million pieces.”
― Anna Johnston, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

“God is a first call and a last resort, from christening to death bed. In between is where faith is tested. The mundanity. Anyone can drop to their knees when they’re facing crisis, but doing it when everything is steady…”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“There are fears you can’t intellectualize. Old reflexes you let go of only when the world has shown you, over and over again, that you are safe.”
― Clémence Michallon, Our Last Resort

“And wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Grief (the biggest grief in the world) is like—What? What is it that happens to a person? I’ve always felt it is like a scream living inside me. It’s gotten a bit softer over time”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent