The Lumber Baron's Wife Quotes

“Listen, my darling girl, when we were a baby in our mother’s womb, that was the only world we knew. It was dark and warm. We could hear our mother’s heartbeat. We were comfortable and content there. Then all of a sudden, it must have been very frightening to be born, to be squeezed with such force into a new world. But we soon discovered that it was a place of light and color and sound. We heard our mother’s voice, felt her arms around us. We could move and stretch our arms and legs. Best of all, we knew love. No baby would ever want to return to that tight, dark, lonely world again, would they?” I shake my head. “Well, that’s just a small picture of what it will be like to step out of this dark world and into the world to come. People who have nearly died and then were brought back say that they didn’t want to return here. They felt bathed in unimaginable love. No, dear, I’m not afraid of dying, any more than I was afraid to be born.”
― Lynn Austin, The Lumber Baron's Wife

“Birth and death, sorrow and joy, suffering and peace came tangled together in this precarious dance of life.”
― Lynn Austin, The Lumber Baron's Wife