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Beth’s Quotes

“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

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“You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

tags: belief

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“but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: friends

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“But if they loved each other so much, couldn’t they talk it out?”

Toby gave an exasperated laugh. “You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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“It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us.”
― M. L. Stedman.

tags: burdens, choices, forgiveness, happiness, hate, p-323

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