Marissa
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“The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking and is still there.
“All ministry begins at the ragged edges of our own pain,”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Varina
― Varina
“After years of loss and reflection, your old deluded decisions click together like the works of a watch packed tight within its case--many tiny, turning, interlocking wheels....the force of every decision transferring gear to gear, wheel to wheel, each one motivating a larger energy going in no direction but steep downward to darkness at an increasing pitch. And then one morning the world resembles Noah's flood, stretching unrecognizable to the horizon and you wonder how you go there. One thing for sure, it wasn't from a bad throw of dice or runes or an unfavorable turn of cards. Blame falls hard and can't be dodged by the guilty.”
― Varina
― Varina
“Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Jane Austen never married,” he said in frustration. “She entered the male-dominated field of novel writing and her female heroines are strong, independent characters. Just what do you imagine a feminist in a rural English village in the late eighteenth century looks like?”
― The Lost Book of the Grail
― The Lost Book of the Grail
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