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“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.”
― Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“Wear pink!' her mother had said. 'It confuses the enemy.”
― Donita K. Paul

“To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.”
― Donita K. Paul

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!”
― Gary Paulsen

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”
― Paulsen, Gary

“That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.”
― Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

“never say never”
― Gary Paulsen

“Never Alone!”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, The Door Within

“I will never deny my King.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson

“Adventures are funny things.
Some streak down upon you like a storm.
Others emerge after many years have passed and something forgotten is revealed.
They can be discovered on a dusty bookshelf or the yellowed pages of an ancient map.
They promise great reward, but no adventure is without risk.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, The Rise of the Wyrm Lord

“The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.”
― Wayne Thomas Batson, Dreamtreaders

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”
― Louis L'Amour

“He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......”
― Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains

“Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more”
― Carolyn Keene

“Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn’t cry much, but when she did, she cried in private.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Stolen Kiss

“And to think,” Ned said huskily, “only this afternoon I thought I’d lost you to another guy.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Stolen Kiss

“The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.”
― Peter Marshall