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“She was like an animal who had sensed danger and gone into full flight mode.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Quiet was the perfect camouflage for pain.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“After so many years of loneliness and grief, Henry brought sunlight into her life. And she was afraid to go back to the dark.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“He had no idea she still sometimes cried in the shower for no reason.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Some things don’t bear the weight of words. That’s the problem with your generation, you all want to talk, talk, talk. What is the point?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Put the pain away, forget about it, and go on.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Having discovered her own failings, she was less inclined to judge others.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“She’d made some of the most momentous choices in her life before she had any idea of consequences.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Some had been thrust on her, some had been expected, some had been impetuous.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Sometimes hurts didn’t quite heal. That was life.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“the healing power of words and the joy of finding quiet.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“It’s hard to see clearly when the world is angry and divided and you’re being lied to.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“you are equally capable of grieving deeply while holding on to hope.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Each of us also deeply longs for a place called home. It is the eternal in us wishing to return to God.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Even though we are in survival mode, we still hear the heart crying for life.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“For as he thinks in his heart,
so is he. —Proverbs 23:7 NKJV”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“we need to know that all eight feelings are good. Each feeling is given to us so that we may live life fully.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Wherever you lack awareness of your heart, no room exists for God.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“admit heart hurt is to begin to hope for heart solution, not just relief of the symptoms.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“when you reach out for someone to be with you, you become part of your own healing. Reaching to another and to God acknowledges your inability to heal alone, and in reaching you find care, assurance, and help in another.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“This experience of hurting, reaching, and trusting nourishes your faith because it really makes you question whether or not God cares, and it exposes your hope that God will meet your needs. You step into the hope that God can do for you what you cannot do.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“When you take part in relational hurting and healing with God and others, you find that restored hope leads to the truth of authentic faith—because you have actually experienced it. By trusting hope with action, you find healing experiences. These new experiences prove hope and trust to be valuable, real, and good. Hurting, reaching, and trusting create faith. There is mysterious power in the fact that through the pain of hurt, you and I find deeper faith and greater strength.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Tears are gifts that we give to whatever we lose.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Through pride, we justify our behaviors instead of accepting responsibility.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Until we truly feel our own pain by recognizing that life gets to our hearts, we cannot meet others in their pain.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“When we are around someone who is sarcastic or belittling, for example, our hearts beat with caution.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“By listening to our fear, we recognize our value and prepare to prevent harm to ourselves and others.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Judgment hides fear. It is a form of stopping fear without listening to it. It keeps us from hearing the meaning of our fear in the moment when we are experiencing it.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“We are personally responsible for making choices, yet we cannot succeed alone. We are limited, yet we will forever find that great strength lies in relying upon one another. Depending is good. We don’t have enough knowledge, wisdom, or power to succeed alone, yet we are completely responsible for all of our choices.”
― Chip Dodd, The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living

“Never drive a better car than fifty per cent of the people who have to vote for you,”
― James A. Michener, Hawaii