Karla Cook > Karla's Quotes

“Some people are just interesting. They can't help it. They just are.”
― Rick Bragg, Ava's Man

“She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Living, really living, wasn’t about clinging to control but about giving it away.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.”
― Cynthia Ruchti

“The burden of ownership means everything has a price.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

“A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The Diamond of Darkhold

“I have always believed that everyone has a story to tell. Story is sprouting up all around us, if only we have eyes to see it. Story forms the fiber of our being, and story is what will remain when we are gone.”
― Lindsay Harrel, The Secrets of Paper and Ink

“Life in every season is inspiring, is it not? And I do not mean in simply the highest highs and the lowest lows. There is something thrilling, almost miraculous, in the everyday things, in the mundane tasks we do. The small wonders found in nature. The way a child clings to his mother when he is afraid. The way a single flower bends to the will of the wind. All of it defines us, and yet none of it does. Life in all its glory and in all its plainness is what causes me to hold pen to paper and cull a story from within.”
― Lindsay Harrel, The Secrets of Paper and Ink

“No one promises us a perfect life, my dear. You must do the best you can with what you've been given.”
― Abigail Wilson, In the Shadow of Croft Towers

“The living of your life is hard work, young Master Carter... You may act the gentleman or the barbarian."

"Those are the only two choices?"

"Yes," said the Butler, "the only two...”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Pay Attention, Carter Jones

“Carla, Carla, Carla. It's always about Carla.”
― Barbara O'Connor, Wish

“Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of the process, which sounds so mundane today, required invention.”
― Margaret Leslie Davis, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

“If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

“Real mothers were the ones who cleaned up the sick and pushed away the tears and hugged a child tight around the neck. Blood or no, that was what they did.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

“I have learned over the years that when I stop grabbing my phone to see what everyone is saying about my social media posts, or to see what everyone else is doing, and instead, grab my Bible to see what God is saying, I am more equipped to fight any anxiety trying to come my way.”
― Caris Snider, Anxiety Elephants: A 31-Day Devotional To Help Stomp Out Your Anxiety

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.’ What better way to become armed than with thousands of stories?”
― Pepper D. Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“But even in Christ, the grief goes on, and anyone who tells you otherwise is in denial. That’s not to say deep joy doesn’t perpetually encroach, because like a waxing moon, the very fullness of joy is destined to one day wholly illuminate our faces.”
― Andrew Peterson, The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

“if we find in ourselves a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, maybe it’s because we were made for another world.”
― Andrew Peterson, The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

“Nobody is ever fully qualified for anything. It’s why we need Jesus.”
― Nicole Deese, The Roads We Follow

“To live truly as a Christian and to be genuinely free to do God’s will really does require a living relationship with the God of the Bible.”
― Eric Metaxas, Religionless Christianity: God's Answer to Evil