Quotes from The Story Keeper

Lisa Wingate ·  438 pages

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“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


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