Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs Quotes

“I wonder if to be human is to know that we can't ever banish pain and ugliness from the world, only learn from it and create something beautiful and good out of it ...”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“It is often said that there are no atheists in foxholes. It seems to me that shelled bunkers would be full of skeptics. In the middle of a war it must be harder, not easier, to believe in a good God.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs

“Everyone needs to be needed, wants to be wanted, and loves to be loved.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“But like most actions that rely on faith, it still took plenty of our own muscle and ingenuity.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“There is something about burying a friend that makes you want to declare what is most important to you in life, and if you're fortunate, that is true love.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“While time may not heal, it does give you perspective.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendship, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

“Someone who loved me was listening and watching over me. I didn’t ever hear Her speak to me, but I knew She was there. I fell asleep to the comforting rhythms of the now-familiar prayers and music of Compline. I wasn’t praying with my feet. I wasn’t doing anything at all. I felt better than I had since my accident.”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs