“But neither the mountains nor the people can rob you of the forgiveness God has given...unless you let them.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“Forgiveness is like an olive tree, mistress. Once it takes root, it will grow, and it’s hard to kill.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“But if rejection was his only stumbling block, then pride was his real problem”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“I think it's easier to know why people do bad things than to understand the true meaning of kind acts.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“El Shaddai, God Almighty; El Elyon, God Most High; El Roi, the God who sees; Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“perhaps forgiveness is more like taking a bath. We must be washed by it over and over.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“I speak to God plainly as I would speak if He stood here before me. Why? Because though He might slay me, He is still my God, my only hope of deliverance.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“When El Shaddai blesses you, no one can steal His blessing—except you.”
― Mesu Andrews, quote from Love Amid The Ashes
“His body was tubby but his arms apparently couldn’t understand that, for they were long and scrawny. From his brow to an inch below his eyes, his nose turned up; from there on, down. His short upper lip slanted sharply toward his tonsils, which had the effect of making his chinlessness positively jut.
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The bartender was fascinated by the way the teardrops proceeded down Biddiver’s amazing nose. One drop would dash almost halfway, and then hesitate, daunted by the hump. Then it would be joined by another teardrop, and the two, merging, would surmount the obstacle and slip down to hang glittering over the disappearing lip until a sob came along to shake them off.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, quote from The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume II: Microcosmic God
“Альберт, я бы тебя убил, если бы хоть немного умел убивать.”
― Dennis Lehane, quote from Live by Night
“Grossman, perhaps tiring slightly of journalism, seems to have longed to convey his thoughts and feelings about the war in fictional form. At this stage, when the Soviet Union was fighting for its life, his ideas were very close to that of the Party line. It was only at Stalingrad, a year later, that his view of the Stalinist regime began to change. This outline, may well have formed part of the idea for The People Immortal, his novel written and published the following year...”
― Vasily Grossman, quote from A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
“Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.”
― Joseph Murphy, quote from THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND (Tamil)
“She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Furthermore
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