“Sometimes divorce is as easy as opening a door, Son. Open it just a crack, and the winds of discontent and frustration can blow it wide open.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“I hope God gives us windows in heaven.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Anyway, my faith’s what drives me. God and I are sort of best friends, I guess.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“God wanted His people to be holy, not perfect. Holiness for God meant perfection, of course. But holiness for His people meant being set apart. Different.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Time and again as she prayed about this day, this moment, she’d asked God for wisdom.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Things were good in her life—very good. God had spared her in more ways than one, and now she was exactly where she belonged.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Praying about something didn’t mean you’d wind up pulling yourself out of the world.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“But as she lay there awake she wondered at herself. If she really was desiring God’s will, then she’d have to listen carefully. Otherwise she wouldn’t hear Him above her own excitement.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“She and Peter had been through counseling, and they understood that parents can only do so much to protect their children and that ultimately they belong to God first.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Every word she says, every step she makes, I’m reminded of the truth—that God still works miracles among us today.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“There’s nothing like watching your children grow up, watching them become the people God created them to be.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Together they would sift through the details of their children’s lives, rejoicing over the positives and reflecting on the areas that needed more prayer. They would laugh at the funny things the grandchildren said and comment about how fast they were growing up. Elizabeth would remind him that all of life went far too fast, and John would agree. The evening would fade, the sun would set, and they’d have the night to share each other’s company.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“It would be a year next Monday, a year since she’d left them. More and more he found himself reliving her final weeks, that crazy emotional roller coaster when the best and worst of times came together in a kaleidoscope of dark shadows and brilliant colors.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“When Elizabeth was alive he had felt young and vibrant, perfectly intent on living another thirty years by her side. But these days he felt slow, tired, as if half his heart had stopped beating right along with hers.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“The words she’d felt God impress upon her heart a few minutes ago came back: Daughter . . . hear My voice . . . know Me.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Sleep came slowly, the way it had for the past year. But when it caught him, it was with good thoughts, happy thoughts. Thoughts of a lifetime of love with the greatest woman he’d ever known.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“But when they finally found each other, when it was clear that God was going to give them a lifetime together, they’d made a promise to Him and to each other.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“With a window in heaven, she could celebrate our good times with us and pray for us when things are tough.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Suddenly everything the Lord had laid on her heart made perfect sense. What had she felt before when she prayed about taking the part? That God would give her a sign, right? And now it was the same thing all over again. God wanted her to hear His voice, to know Him. And how better to know Him than by knowing what He wasn’t, where He wasn’t?”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“She felt the loss, much as he must’ve been feeling it. There would be no friendship forged, no chance at love. The canyon between their worlds had proved greater than any bridge that might’ve spanned it.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“I mean, maybe I’d be a safe person for you, someone you could talk to without worrying that the press was going to capture every minute.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Innocence was something that grew in the heart and shone through the eyes.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Daughter . . . above all else, guard your heart.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“If God wanted her to guard her heart, then that meant He wanted her to be careful.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“I’ve asked God to make it clear. He can either shut the door or open it. I don’t want it unless He wants it for me.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Light wasn’t enough to chase away the darkness today.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“She’d simply pray for a chance to talk to Dayne, and maybe in the process he’d find his way back to the faith his parents had taught him. It was one more reason God must’ve allowed this opportunity.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
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― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
“Her mother had raised her to believe that lying was one of the worst things a person could do.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Fame
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“Ha! ha! ha! -- ha! ha! ha! -- ho! ho! ho!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Purloined Letter
“When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.”
― Fuyumi Ono, quote from The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn
“The rhythm built up, high resonant notes from the buzzing xylophone, the off-scale dipping warble of the flute, the eerie, strangely primeval bass of the synthesizer.
The others punctuated the music with claps and sudden piercing shrieks from behind their veils. Suddenly one began to sing in Tamashek.
"He sings about his synthesizer," Gresham murmured.
"What does he say?"
I humbly adore the acts of the Most High,
Who has given to the synthesizer what is better than a soul.
So that, when it plays, the men are silent,
And their hands cover their veils to hide their emotions.
The troubles of life were pushing me into the tomb,
But thanks to the synthesizer,
God has given me back my life.”
― Bruce Sterling, quote from Islands in the Net
“once there was a great king who gazed down from a tall tower upon a gardener who sang as he worked, and the king cried, ‘Ah, to have a life of no cares! If only I could be that gardener.’ And the voice of the August Personage of Jade reached out from Heaven and said, ‘It shall be so,’ and lo, the king was a gardener singing in the sun. In time the sun grew hot and the gardener stopped singing, and a fine dark cloud brought coolness and then drifted away, and it was hot again and much work remained, and the gardener cried, ‘Ah, to carry coolness wherever I go and have no cares! If only I could be that cloud.’ And the voice of the August Personage reached out from Heaven and said, ‘It shall be so,’ and lo, the gardener was a cloud drifting across the sky. And the wind blew and the sky grew cold, and the cloud would have liked to go behind the shelter of a hill, but it could only go where the wind took it, and no matter how hard it tried to go this way the wind took it that way, and above the cloud was the bright sun. ‘Ah, to fly through wind and be warm and have no cares! If only I could be the sun,’ cried the cloud, and the voice of the August Personage of Jade reached out from Heaven and said, ‘It shall be so,’ and lo, he was the sun. It was very grand to be the sun, and he delighted in the work of sending down rays to warm some things and burn others, but it was like wearing a suit made of fire and he began to bake like bread. Above him the cool stars that were gods were sparkling in safety and serenity and the sun cried, ‘Ah, to be divine and free from care! If only I could be a god.’ And the voice of the August Personage of Jade reached out from Heaven and said, ‘It shall be so,’ and lo, he was a god, and he was beginning his third century of combat with the Stone Monkey, which had just transformed itself into a monster a hundred thousand feet tall and was wielding a trident made from the triple peaks of Mount Hua, and when he wasn’t dodging blows he could see the peaceful green earth down below him, and the god cried, ‘Ah, if only I could be a man who was safe and secure and had no cares!’ And the voice of the August Personage of Jade reached out from Heaven and said, ‘It shall be so.’ And lo, he was a king who was gazing down from a tall tower upon a gardener who sang as he worked.”
― Barry Hughart, quote from The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”
― C.S. Friedman, quote from In Conquest Born
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