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“panko fried chicken and truffle mac and cheese with soppressata.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“tchotchke”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Mother’s ironic vision of life as one prank after another, in the midst of which you did what was needed.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“The house always smells like good food,” said Piotr. “It’s the perfume of love.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“God must have so ordained this world, and that gave hope to the righteous no matter how bleak their cause.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“love and be loved is worth the risk of potential loss.”
― Royd Tolkien, There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers

“His wife even insisted on buying a couple of Cutco knives from me when Scoggin told her what I did for a living.”
― Rysa Walker, Now, Then, and Everywhen

“the Exceptions had an album. Rock ’n’ Roll Mass.”
― Rysa Walker, Now, Then, and Everywhen

“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline

“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”2 Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline

“Without the cross the Discipline of confession would be only psychologically therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline

“Because there’s a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world—your piece of it included—for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides.” “So, kinda like an American president, then.” I gaped for a second as I tried to make the connection, then closed my mouth. “Yeah, kinda like that.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged