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Jenni Simmons said:
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Johnny said that I would cry at the end of this book and I did indeed choke up more than once. Perelandra is now in my top 10 favorite books. Please, everyone, read this trilogy.
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IN THE BEGINNING, after he labored over the heavens and the earth, the light and the dark, the land and sea and all living things that dwell therein, after he created man and woman and before he rested, I believe God gave us one final gift.
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“But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”
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“I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Literature in the West arose from liturgy.”
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“They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel,’ she said. ‘They say they’re where your wings will grow again one day.”
― Skellig
― Skellig
“God does not erase our losses, those empty places in our lives, but he does something almost more miraculous. He fills the loss with a sign of his presence.”
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
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