“Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“no matter how many wrong choices we’ve made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the one that does.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“All things pass, suga’ pea. All the things a this worl’ got a time for bornin’ and time for dyin’, and a time for troublin’ and a time for restin’. Ssshhh”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They’d”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“It’s an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do.” “I”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s. Hannah”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“no matter how many wrong choices we’ve made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the one that does.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“George Vida braced his hands on the table before taking his seat, his gaze strafing the room with the discernment of a leathery old goat sniffing for something to nibble on.”
― Lisa Wingate, quote from The Story Keeper
“chooks. You cannot go away and leave”
― Peter Carey, quote from Oscar and Lucinda
“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from The Urth of the New Sun
“—Might! I say to myself, Might, always Might—and be it no more than an inch it is merciless.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Road Back
“Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he asks quietly.
He hears her breathing so close to his ear.
'Yes.'
'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from The Piper's Son
“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.”
― Leon Uris, quote from QB VII
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