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“Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where WE stand, how we're going to live OUR lives. We can try to persuade ourselves that evil doesn't exist; live for ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“When I thought back, it seemed like I’d spent all my time trying to get people to like me, as opposed to figuring out whether I liked them.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wish

“You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Live your life. Don’t let the past or the future ruin right now.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“But even if it lacked the sheer joy of the dolphins, I felt a deep sense of satisfaction at that huge tail. Because it was my choice to come out on the ocean and see it. And I had spoken up, said what I wanted, and made it happen. It had been a long time since I was whole enough to do that.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, She's Up to No Good

“You can’t let it break you. Things don’t work out the way you want sometimes, but you have to keep going.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, She's Up to No Good

“Margherita’s father always said a person only truly revealed themselves when in disguise.”
― Kate Forsyth, Bitter Greens

“Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“By the time I was old enough to figure out that I was simply introverted, it was a part of my being, the assumption that there is something inherently wrong with me. I wish I could find that little vestige of doubt and remove it.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Her virtue, the reader understood, derived not only from her generosity but also from her wish to remain anonymous.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“But by 1920, popular self-help guides had changed their focus from inner virtue to outer charm”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Rumi said, There is no proof of the soul. But isn’t the return of spring and how it springs up in our hearts a pretty good hint?”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“As I grew older the things I cared about grew fewer, but were more important.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Then again, she didn’t like small talk either, so she was glad he wasn’t commenting on the weather or landscape. Life was too big and too short and too important to talk about the lack of rain or the latest gossip. She wanted to know how people felt about themselves and one another, whether they were happy or sad. She wanted to know what made them feel loved and what hurt them to the core. She wanted to know about their past, how they got where they were, and their relationships with their mothers and fathers and siblings. She wanted to know if she was the only mixed-up person in the world who felt completely and utterly alone.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Life She Was Given

“Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“I have always grieved the ends of things. The final notes of a song as they ebb into silence. The curtain falling at the end of a play. The last snowflake. Goodbyes. So many goodbyes.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“When so much has been uprooted—so many things lost—one must seek comfort in rituals. Even the sad ones.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“making. Sometimes I think I have a short somewhere in my relationship circuit.” “Don’t get fancy. You’re just an introvert.”
― Juliette Fay, The Half of It

“No one can take her away from you, Camilla. She’s your daughter. You’re bound for life, and by something that runs much deeper than blood and shared memories. You’re bound by your echoes.” She turns back, a little crease between her brows. “Echoes?” I smile, because she looks like she needs a smile. “It’s something my mother used to say. She believed we each possess an echo, a kind of spiritual fingerprint, and that those echoes connect us to the ones we love, binding us forever.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“Lovers wound one another for many reasons, but in the end, fear is always at the root of it. It’s a hard thing, perhaps the hardest of all, to trust when we’re afraid—to open ourselves to the risk of forgiveness. But forgiveness is the greatest magick of all. Forgiveness makes all things new. —”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“The only establishment that could rival a bookshop or a library, in my opinion, was a good stationery shop.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Yet it struck me that being a woman was akin to a performance, with its cues and lines that had to be learned. I knew how I was supposed to act and what I was supposed to say, I just wasn’t exactly sure if I wanted to.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“I’m not going to blame my past, but we all have one and it follows us around like a prison, always keeping us from the person we truly wish to be.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Intuition, Madame Bowden had called it. Maybe ignoring it had been the problem all along.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“You may all think you’re walking around exercising your free will in every situation, but you’re not. You’re constantly influenced by what your heart wants, what your head wants and how you want the world to see you.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“That line from the book. It said that you have to trust you will end up exactly where you’re meant to be.”
― Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

“Everyone who wants a fresh start, gets one. You are what you bring to the table.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“Live as long as I have and you’ll realize that whether the organization you put your faith in brandishes a Bible or a copy of Das Kapital, the haves in that organization are rarely interested in sharing with the have-nots.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club