“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn’t know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“There now,” she said with some satisfaction and, taking careful aim, she shut her eyes and chopped hard. It worked—but Marty was totally unprepared for the next event. A wildly flopping chicken—with no head—covered her unmercifully with spattered blood. “Stop thet! Stop thet!” she screamed. “Yer s’pose to be dead, ya—ya dumb headless thing.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on,"an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
“He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt.”
― Janette Oke, quote from Love Comes Softly
Janette Oke
Born place: in Champion, Alberta, Canada
Born date February 18, 1935
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“Now the Night Bridge has seen you, too, and if you turned back, it could keep your soul forever.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian fiction. Won”
― P.D. James, quote from The Private Patient
“It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from Bearers of the Black Staff
“I, too, lived—which I had not done before, and which I could still do. I lived into the depths, and the depths began to speak. The depths taught me the other truth. It thus united sense and nonsense in me. I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul. In the sense of the spirit of the depths, I am as I am in this visible world a symbol of my soul, and I am thoroughly a serf, completely subjugated, utterly obedient. The spirit of the depths taught me to say: “I am the servant of a child.” Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”
― C.G. Jung, quote from The Red Book: Liber Novus
“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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