Night Falls on Predicament Avenue Quotes

“I can hear the darkness. It is like a breeze on a frigid winter's night that rattles the leafless branches. It is like the cold that travels through your open mouth and down your throat, a frozen kiss stealing your breath. It is like a blizzard that swallows you in its swiftness, blinding behind and before, and side to side. Darkness is winter. It is the end. It is death.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“willingly gives, who overcomes evil, we will live in fear. In the clutches of fear that suffocates and drains us. No. Grace is costly. But it is ours. And in receiving it, we find our weakness infused with His strength. His hope. His future. Live it.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Tears of missing someone aren’t tears that lack courage. Instead, you have the courage to feel the empty spaces, but hope for when they’ll be filled again.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Most of us resist this surrendering to hope, and yet we surrender to fear every day, easily and without much of a fight. Today, listener, I challenge you. Surrender to hope instead.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Fear is a lack of hope and a belief in the murder of our dreams, our lives, and even our salvation.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“And then there are people like me. People who are afraid to live in the present, so instead we keep exploring the mysteries of yesterday. It’s safer in the past. For all of us. Because the past has already been lived in, already been broken, already been ruined. Tomorrow? Tomorrow is one giant question mark, and none of us are sure we want to go there. Not just yet. But we have to. Tomorrow doesn’t wait for us to be ready. Tomorrow doesn’t wait for us to stop being afraid.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“We’re afraid of death in part because we’re afraid of the grief that follows. Death is momentary, but grief is what’s left behind. The remnants of every memory, every moment, every emotion. Grief is all the unspoken words that will never be said, the lost I-love-you’s, and the emptiness of the shadows they leave behind. Grief is a demon that stalks us.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“to fear is to die slowly, but to hope is to glimpse
into eternity and find everlasting Life.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Is grace given recklessly? No, it is not. It's given through sacrifice, rooted in the preciousness of love and life. It's given by surrendering to the One who laid down His life. It is a recognition that without the hope offered by the Savior who so willingly gives, who overcomes evil, we will live in fear. In the clutches of fear that suffocates and drains us. No. Grace is costly. But it is ours. And in receiving it, we find out weakness infused with His strength. His hope. His future. Live it.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“I believe I will always be a memory here at 322 Predicament Avenue. And when the night Falls, those who sleep can choose to fear or hope, turn away or believe, rebel or reconcile. Because in the end, that's what life really is. The moments before we are face-to-face with God, and He enacts justice or grace. I fear the first, but truly, in spite of my sins, I believe He offers the second, even if I am almost too late in asking. For that is what I know to be true. It always has been. It always will be.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“No one likes to speak of sin, or death, or fear. But maybe that is what our memories are meant to remind the future of. So that new beginnings forged from truth and hope can be made...”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Does a house like this hold the memories and emotions in its walls? Can generations hear the echoes of them and be reminded of what should have been? What could have been?”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Fear steals our joy and is the agony of those with no hope. It will not define us. Fear is the enemy we will defeat.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“There were so many beliefs these days, so many theories and philosophies, yet if she dared not ask if God was real, and why He allowed evil to exist in the world, then how could she ever know the truth? How could she stop being afraid when the truth had no standard and no foundation, but instead was whatever a person made up to make themself feel better?”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“The notion that time healed and lessened pain was a myth. Time merely mocked the absence, taunting, heralding the missing pieces that could never be replaced again by anyone.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Apparently her behavior with Polly the other night had doomed her to doing penance with a strange Englishman who could easily be mistaken for an undertaker while at the same time be oddly and almost seductively handsome. "Will you?" he asked again, his voice dripping with a mesmerizing quality that seemed to hypnotize her. And being hypnotized was never a safe position in which to find oneself.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“We're afraid of death in part because we're afraid of the grief that follows. Death is momentary, but grief is what's left behind. The remnants of every memory, every moment, every emotion. Grief is all the unspoken words that will never be said, the lost I-love-you's, and the emptiness of the shadows they leave behind. Grief is a demon that stalks us.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

“Effie couldn't disregard the awful sight of the blood that cursed this room with its stains. Stains that someone had taken the time to hid by rearranging the furniture.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue