Angie

“God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.”
― Nancy Rue, New Girl in Town

“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
― Lois Lowry

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.”
― Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow