“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
“Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.”
― Arthur Nersesian, quote from The Fuck-Up
“I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“carrying money, food and the seal ring of Bel-ka-Trazet, set out alone for Lak. BOOK VI”
― Richard Adams, quote from Shardik
“The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.”
― Nikki Grimes, quote from Bronx Masquerade
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.”
― Flannery O'Connor, quote from Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters
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