Hannah Kennedy > Hannah's Quotes

“A person's life has so many stories: five we don't know for each one we can tell.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“The more I try to remember, the more the memory recedes from me, like darkness running from the light as the earth turns on its axis.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“I grew up thinking it was normal to play in ghost towns.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“Everything was falling apart already. Then, a storm came along, and it all came tumbling down.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“I can't imagine telling all my thoughts to someone else, speaking them into the atmosphere like flint sparks in a cloud of gasoline fumes. I think the world might explode.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“I stare through the bare trees to the black sky pricked with stars like shards of glass over velvet.”
― Hannah Allman Kennedy, And It All Came Tumbling Down

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“love always desires to bless the object of its affection.”
― Jim Cymbala, Breakthrough Prayer: The Secret of Receiving What You Need from God

“Instead of trying to bring men and women to Christ in the biblical way, we are consumed with the unbiblical concept of “church growth.” The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God’s message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God’s church God’s way.”
― Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Heart of His People