“It takes two to make a marriage work and two to make it fall apart.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“Life goes on, regardless of the future, each day was precious all by itself.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“The only thing you need is faith in Christ and dedication to each other. If you have that... everything else will fall in place.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“(D.L. Moody, who said in his dying days)In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“AS C.S. Lewis once said, for Joe life here on earth was only the title and cover page. And now he has begun the greatest story of all, one that no one on earth has ever read in which ever chapter is better than the last.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“Abby's eyes fell on a wooden sign hanging near the foot of his bed:"I'm only passing through . . . this world is not my home.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“There will always be naysayers. The key is to listen to God's calling. If you're doing that, then everyone else's opinion amount to little more than hot air.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“Something in her wanted to bolt, wanted to protect her heart before it became too lost to ever find again.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
― Susanna Clarke, quote from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, quote from The Virgin Suicides
“Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Lord of the Rings
“It's just a stupid sword," she said, aloud this time...
... but it wasn't.
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Feast for Crows
“This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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