While We're Far Apart Quotes

“Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.”
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“One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“Everyone had forgotten her. But that's the way Penny was-- so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma's house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people's lives as if watching a movie.”
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“We cannot know all of the things that are going on behind the scenes that we see in the photographs. They do not show us how Hashem is at work.”
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“He was slowly learning that walking in faith meant leaving a way of life in which he was in control and willingly walking in uncertainty, trusting that God was in control.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“But the Scriptures say that as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is Hashem’s mercy toward us. As far as the east is from the west, so far has Hashem removed our sins from us. We can be forgiven. And then we can begin to live new lives from that day forward.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“Just a minute, Esther. Slow down and listen to me. How can Hashem answer such a prayer in the middle of a war? We are the ones who started this war, not Him. People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.”
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“Hungary!" Esther shouted. "That's where Mr. Mendel's son is! That's what he was trying to tell us."
"That must have been what upset him," Penny said.
"Hitler is just like Haman. He hates the Jewish people. But who will be Queen Esther? Who will stop him this time?"
She saw Peter writing something. He held it up for her to see. Daddy will.”
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“mezuzah”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“if we confess our sins to Hashem, if we repent of our wrongdoings and promise to turn away from them and go in a new direction, then He will forgive us. We should make restitution for what we have done whenever possible. And sometimes there are natural consequences from our actions that must be faced. But the Scriptures say that as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is Hashem’s mercy toward us.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word. The way to find answers was through obedience to that Word.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“The prophet Habakkuk lived in a time that was much like ours. He, too, asked Hashem, ‘Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?’ And you know Hashem’s reply as well as I do: ‘The righteous shall live by his faith.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“baby-sitting their roast in his oven? Who knew what he would be doing for them next?”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

“Hashem may not answer our prayers the way we want him to," he said, clearing his throat. "He did not deliver Joseph from prison right away. But Hashem was there with Joseph, even in hype silence”
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