“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.”
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“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from These Old Shades
“older vowels were showing through as he said that it was “awfully good of” his parents to have tolerated him.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, quote from The Line of Beauty
“No matter what else, we have love. Always love.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Hidden
“And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from The Assassin and the Empire
“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects?
I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that I have a choice?
Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of occupation. All of us seem to come equipped with filters on the floors of our minds, and all the filters have differing sizes and meshes. What catches in my filter may run right through yours. What catches in yours may pass through mine, no sweat. All of us seem to have a built-in obligation to sift through the sludge that gets caught in our respective mind-filters, and what we find there usually develops into some sort of sideline.
The accountant may also be a photographer. The astronomer may collect coins. The school-teacher may do gravestone rubbings in charcoal. The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. In civilized society we have an unspoken agreement to call our obsessions “hobbies.”
Sometimes the hobby can become a full-time job. The accountant may discover that he can make enough money to support his family taking pictures; the schoolteacher may become enough of an expert on grave rubbings to go on the lecture circuit. And there are some professions which begin as hobbies and remain hobbies even after the practitioner is able to earn his living by pursuing his hobby; but because “hobby” is such a bumpy, common-sounding little word, we also have an unspoken agreement that we will call our professional hobbies “the arts.”
Painting. Sculpture. Composing. Singing. Acting. The playing of a musical instrument. Writing. Enough books have been written on these seven subjects alone to sink a fleet of luxury liners. And the only thing we seem to be able to agree upon about them is this: that those who practice these arts honestly would continue to practice them even if they were not paid for their efforts; even if their efforts were criticized or even reviled; even on pain of imprisonment or death.
To me, that seems to be a pretty fair definition of obsessional behavior. It applies to the plain hobbies as well as the fancy ones we call “the arts”; gun collectors sport bumper stickers reading YOU WILL TAKE MY GUN ONLY WHEN YOU PRY MY COLD DEAD FINGERS FROM IT, and in the suburbs of Boston, housewives who discovered political activism during the busing furor often sported similar stickers reading YOU'LL TAKE ME TO PRISON BEFORE YOU TAKE MY CHILDREN OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD on the back bumpers of their station wagons. Similarly, if coin collecting were outlawed tomorrow, the astronomer very likely wouldn't turn in his steel pennies and buffalo nickels; he'd wrap them carefully in plastic, sink them to the bottom of his toilet tank, and gloat over them after midnight.”
― Stephen King, quote from Night Shift
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