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But Jo looks over at me, black sea-salt waves framing her face. The spark of victory in her gaze dims. “Caly, you look like you just saw a ghost.” I glance back at the Golden Flame, darkness overtaking the ship. Maybe I did.
“Maybe the song you’re writing is for one specific heartbroken soul who won’t be born for another four hundred years.”
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
“You don’t heal in a single moment. It’s day by day, a little at a time. The time it takes doesn’t mean God’s not healing you, or that you need to change tactics.”
― Martin Legacy
― Martin Legacy
“I personally become very depressed by mankind’s inability to learn from its mistakes.”
― A Second Chance
― A Second Chance
“the end begins like all the beginnings before.”
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
“None of us here deserved God’s saving grace either, but we accepted it anyway because we needed it,” he continued. “Life isn’t about deserving things. It’s about doing the best we can with what we have.”
― Martin Legacy
― Martin Legacy
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