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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“The sun's glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.”
― Michael R. Hicks

“When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, despair, love, lust?"
"Yes."
"Yes, what?"
"All of it.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“There are two types of women in the world, Beattie, those who do things and those who have things done to them.”
― Kimberley Freeman, Wildflower Hill

“Enoch 39:4 There I saw another vision; I saw the habitations and resting places of the saints. There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels, and their resting places with the holy ones. They were entreating, supplicating, and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness like water flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered over the earth. And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.”
― Enoch, The Book of Enoch

“What color am I, Thomas?” “About two shades darker than caramel,” answered Thomas. “Damn, Thomas. I’m black. We don’t watch golf. We watch football, basketball and dominoes.” “I can see you at nighttime, Washington, so you’re not black.” “Do you see caramel as an option when you fill out the U.S. Census, Thomas?” “No, I don’t. But there is a place that states other. Check that one next time.”
― Michael Edwards, Mr. Always Right, Until Along Came a Woman

“The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth."
"So”
― Carolyn Brown, The Ladies' Room

“Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but”
― Carolyn Brown, The Ladies' Room

“Jasmine didn’t hear them; she was in her own little world. All around her the colorful fish swam, oblivious to the child who proved no threat to them. Linnea shook her head—in the fading light of the day and the silence of the scene, it looked almost dreamlike and she could imagine it was exactly the same as Ye Ye had described it when he first found the small girl.”
― Kay Bratt, The Scavenger's Daughters

“At its most basic, it was like looking at thousands of parts in an car, down to the last screw and bolt.”
― Dan Kolbet, Off The Grid

“But other people’s greed and corruption isn’t an excuse. It’s a personal choice. A decision to go down that road is usually made without consideration for how innocent people may be affected. The greed of big business and the attitude that corruption is acceptable because everyone’s doing it led to the economic collapse.” “From”
― Rayna Morgan, Murder at the Pier

“That’s a good idea,” Boudreaux said, catching Amelia glaring at him. “You stand in your house shoes out there in the flooded yard and start shooting your Taser around.” “You makin’ fun of me, then,” she said. “No, I’m simply pointing out a gaping flaw in your offense,” he said. “Stop talkin’ to her,” Amelia said, and Boudreaux winked at her, then gave Miss Evangeline a sly smile. “Smile at me again,” she said. “I come there and slap your head right off your neck.” Boudreaux”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Landfall

“if I don’t fight, I’m dead for sure. And I’d rather fight and feel hope than succumb to hopelessness.”
― Ella Summers, Fairy Magic

“A desperate people are a dangerous people.”
― K.F. Breene, Fate of Devotion

“Maybe we should stop looking at why God doesn’t answer every prayer the way we think He should. But instead we should count it a blessing that He hears our prayers at all.”
― Jody Hedlund, Love Unexpected

“MAY GOD GRANT YOU ALWAYS A SUNBEAM TO WARM YOU A MOONBEAM TO CHARM YOU A SHELTERING ANGEL SO NOTHING CAN HARM YOU LAUGHTER TO CHEER YOU FAITHFUL FRIENDS NEAR YOU AND WHENEVER YOU PRAY HEAVEN TO HEAR YOU.”
― Carolyn Brown, The Empty Nesters

“Hope could be, and often was, a dogged and deliberate choice when the world seemed dark. It depended not on a feeling about the way things were or the way they were moving, but on faith, faith in the One God. This God had made the world. This God had called Israel to be his people. The scriptures, not least the Psalms, had made it clear that this God could be trusted to sort things out in the end, to be true to his promises, to vindicate his people at last, even if it had to be on the other side of terrible suffering. “Hope” in this sense is not a feeling. It is a virtue. You have to practice it, like a difficult piece on the violin or a tricky shot at tennis. You practice the virtue of hope through worship and prayer, through invoking the One God, through reading and reimagining the scriptural story, and through consciously holding the unknown future within the unshakable divine promises.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Art of Making Sense: Writings and Speeches 2019