Serena B. Miller > Quotes

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
― Serena B. Miller

“[...] They taught us to never ever underestimate the power of chocolate on a female."
"Is that so?"
"If someone had waved a Hershey bar in front of Bonnie at the right time of the month, she'd have given up Clyde in a heartbeat.”
― Serena B. Miller, Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio

“When I say I will never leave you nor forsake you, I am not making up some white man's words that mean nothing, I am repeating holy, sacred words that are in that book. Those words have power. I want to teach you the power of those words. For me to ignore my Holy Scriptures and walk away from you, or to take a child from you as your father did your mother, would mean to me that I had lied to my God. I would accept death before I would leave you after making such a holy promise.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“I was growing cold, but now you are my campfire.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.”
― Serena B. Miller, Fearless Hope

“Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“Amish culture is built around preserving and protecting the family unit.”
― Serena B. Miller, More than Happy: The Wisdom of Amish Parenting

“Whose God would they found their life together on? He would not ever abandon his,”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“As they entered the shade of the hardwood forest, he realized that he was feeling very odd. He tried to figure out why and discovered, to his surprise, that the strange emotion he was feeling was . . . happiness.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Her knees grew weak as her mind tried to wrap itself around the realization that her husband intended to kill her.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“the hopelessness she saw in her people’s eyes. Too many had given up. They were so tied to the land that when it was no longer theirs to roam at will, it was as though they no longer knew who they were.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“Tomorrow he would make his good-byes to Robert, Katie, and the children. He would use his dwindling funds to purchase another ticket on a steamboat going north. Hopefully, it would not blow up and he would find his way back to Moon Song.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“The way I see it, Katie-girl”—his voice was thick with emotion—“is that God has already seen fit to bless us with three little souls to raise. That’s a whole lot more than some people ever get.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Lord, protect and keep us in the hollow of your hand,” he said as they departed.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“How many other people had he dismissed as being too far gone to even think about God?”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Was it worth the accidents that happened out in the woods when the giant pines took their own revenge on the puny men trying to destroy them?”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“The genteel, lost culture of the South, exemplified in the well-manicured plantations, had rested on the shoulders of men like Harlan - boys raised to believe that their needs, their desires, their wants, had more weight than those of other mortals. it was a myth that was perpetuated from parent to son, until most believed it without question - except for the slaves who had labored beneath the misbegotten myth and some of the mistreated wives who had silently endured.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Father, give me wisdom,” he asked aloud. “Whatever this letter might hold, please give me wisdom.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“Robert gratefully took the slip of paper. “Why do you care so much?” Delia drew herself up. “If I’m going to become a respectable businesswoman, I’ll need a good friend like Katie Calloway in town.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“He knew this. He was ashamed of this. But he was incapable of ever operating again. Except now—he had no choice. The man who had saved his daughter’s life was dying, and Robert knew that he was Skypilot’s only hope.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“the Lord opened the door for the exact job she needed.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“Regardless of whether he stayed in the logging business or not—the loggers and axe men and swampers and road monkeys and teamsters would continue to pour into the Saginaw Valley to mine the green gold that was putting Michigan on the map.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“honestly don’t know what I might do. I never doubted my sanity before, but that episode has shaken me. I suppose any of us might lose our minds under the right circumstances.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“This place feels . . .” She searched for the right word. “Holy.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Things are changing fast. A person has to hurry to keep up.” Moon Song thought that the people she saw hurrying along the wooden sidewalks of Bay City needed to slow down, but she kept quiet. That was their problem. Not hers.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“everything had a circle. Skypilot and the others had saved her and Ayasha’s life. Now she saved his. The rabbit would nourish all of them as it was meant to do.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“The best lesson of all was that gold, real gold, true gold, was found only within the hearts of those who loved.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“I would appreciate it if you kept this between the two of us, but I have been an abolitionist at heart my entire life. There was little I could do about it before the war, and I was too old when it broke out to enlist. But in many small quiet ways I have done what I could.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway

“Deep down, he had a nagging suspicion that Penelope was less in love with him than that he was her desperate last chance at a normal life.”
― Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon

“I’ve been saving up.” The eagerness in her voice was genuine. “I been praying for something I could do to get out of the business.”
― Serena B. Miller, The Measure of Katie Calloway