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“Ma'am, do you realize that the speed limit is 55 here?" "Yes, but, Officer, it's so HARD to drive only 55. The road is so straight. And the Scotch Broom is blooming." "Ma'am, this is a stretch of road with several vineyards and wineries along it. If you hit one of Sonoma County's best winemakers and knock him off, Napa will be all over us in an instant. We can't jeopardize our grape-growers.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“That's what a family seems to be, a team of your biggest fans who are also more work than you could ever imagine.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“Today is a day when I can be meditative instead of frantic, rhythmic instead of chaotic, positive instead of negative, loving instead of resentful, and a wise child instead of an immature adult. Today is a day in the forest, a day of sweet breezes, a day of clean laundry. Today is a day to settle accounts, to make things balance, to check a few things off of my list. Today is a day to laugh with my kids, to notice them, to call their beauty out. Today is a day to knit with my friends, to listen to words of wisdom, to make bridges between our hearts. Today is a day to reach out, and a day to rest in near silence. Today anything can happen.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“Unfortunately, the only place that carries the one I need is the psycho household store. Have you ever been in that store? Talk about insanity. They've taken vertical storage to a whole new limit. There are fifty million types of garlic presses, stacked to the ceiling. I almost started crying.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“I was born to look for hope until my eyes sting with the strain. to wait and watch through the night to shrug off gentle tries until finally I am broken clearly unlovable. clearly loved. this is what I was born for: to finally stop fighting and listen. to be soft. to thaw. God beside me takes my clenched hands and opens them this is the way He is, broken things are made new.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“Things did get better after that, though never like they were before the small blue baby boy was put into the earth. Catherine’s mother wasn’t a girl anymore, singing at any chance like she used to. She was old with a young face, walking slowly and watching the trees when she could stop and lean on her broom. Catherine thought that her brother was always with her ma, never quite letting her go, and it made her ma tired to carry him, too.”
― The Eve Tree
― The Eve Tree
“Certainty of a good future causes your whole life to be different. He was referring to the promise in the Bible that we have life to come, life forever, life with God.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“And we travel faster and faster, trying to gain what we're looking for, only to find that it's gone when we get there. We won't find it. Not yet, anyway. Contentment comes when we see that this is not all that will ever be. This is the way He is. Broken things are made new.”
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
“hormone given to you in pregnancy, one that is designed to keep you from yelling at your children because you are so irritable and grumpy. The effect that this hormone”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“Hebede”
― Crown of Stars: A Fantasy Fiction Series
― Crown of Stars: A Fantasy Fiction Series
“But the truth is that the Christian faith centers around a very real future, beyond our present life, an eternal future where everything will be made right. Where we will be made right.”
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
“It's like Madeleine L'Engle says. We are made up of all our ages.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“We live in hope that the world will actually BE the way we long for it to be, with all the good and beautiful attributes we desire. It means that none of this, none of our unmet desires are in vain. Think of how disappointing it would be if we felt that this was all there was. I know deep in myself, that good is true, is real. My own faltering attempts to be good can't even touch what is really there, the real world, the place my own life scarcely resembles. But one day. One day we will see it and we will be changed, we will be good ourselves, just as God is good.”
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
― A Home as Wide as the Earth
“The most life-giving thing that I've learned in this time is that God still loves me, no matter how much I despise myself for failing, over and over again. He will never despise me. He will set my feet in a spacious place. The roots of these trees can't keep me.”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
“suddenly having five kids cruising around on top of your two is not the most stable thing.) When I get to the Big House I'll find out that the person who usually watches my kids while I work is away picking grapes for the week. This is the first I've heard of it. So, in a last-ditch effort to still get some work done, I'll attempt to put a video on for them. But the TV will be broken. Okay. At this point there's nothing for me to do but find my husband and let him know that I quit, because my job has become impossible. He'll suggest that we find another TV, at which point I'll throw my own self on the floor (metaphorically) and wail that there isn't another TV anywhere. But then my friend Elena will let me know that there is. So Chinua will install the new TV, which has been around since before I was born, while I”
― Trees Tall as Mountains
― Trees Tall as Mountains
