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Daphne Kalotay
“How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.”
Daphne Kalotay

Mark Buchanan
“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still. Sabbath is both a day and an attitude to nurture such stillness. It is both time on a calendar and a disposition of the heart. It is a day we enter, but just as much a way we see. Sabbath imparts the rest of God—actual physical, mental, spiritual rest, but also the rest of God— the things of God’s nature and presence we miss in our busyness.”
Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

Susan Meissner
“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.”
Susan Meissner, The Shape of Mercy

Tony Reinke
“Images trigger response. Images create impressions. But images are ambivalent. Images cannot carry an argument or imply a critical interpretation. We just bring the criticism ourselves. So every time we see spectacles of military power, or terror-driven bloodshed, we can ask our Acela: What do these images want from me? And who grows more powerful if I give it?”
Tony Reinke, Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

Paula McLain
“He was such an enigma, really - fierce and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a son of a bitch. In the end, there wasn't one thing about him that was truer than the rest. It was all true.”
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

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