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“[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand. —Einstein”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that once you're the kind of person who thinks about all this stuff, you don't go back to being the kind of person who doesn't. And that's okay. It's harder, but I think I'd rather be the kind of person who does.”
― Kate Messner, Breakout

“Maybe Sophie was upset but not mad. Sometimes, Ava couldn't tell the difference. She just assumed that whenever anybody wasn't happy, it was her fault.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“It's a gray morning. A roll-over-and-snuggle-deeper-in-the-covers morning.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.”
― Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

“historic eruptions,”
― Kate Messner, Journey through Ash and Smoke

“Eye of the Storm:”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“You have to let go before you can reach.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“send me here, to the heart of the storm belt, for the summer.”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“some secrets stayed in the dark, where they belonged.”
― Kate Messner, Hide and Seek

“Some of the men traveling alone hadn’t bothered with wagons. Henry and Ezra Beard, brothers from St. Louis, only had mules.”
― Kate Messner, Rescue on the Oregon Trail

“Thankyou, Risha.”
― Kate Messner, Eye of the Storm

“Ranger”
― Kate Messner, Danger in Ancient Rome

“Simon”
― Kate Messner, Long Road to Freedom

“they’d been handed an order of the day from General Eisenhower. “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade,”
― Kate Messner, D-Day: Battle on the Beach

“Smothered in numbers?” Sophie raised her eyebrows. “I didn’t know that could be fatal.” “It totally can,” Ava said. “Death by linear equations.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“Enjoy today because it won't come back.”
― Mindy Starns Clark , The Amish Nanny

“At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.”
― Mindy Starns Clark, Secrets of Harmony Grove

“Jesus comes first. Then others. Then yourself. All of our decisions come down to that. Christ taught us to live in community. He wants us to be His hands and feet.”
― Mindy Starns Clark, The Amish Nanny

“Courage is merely fear that’s said its prayers,”
― Mindy Starns Clark, The Amish Nanny

“Maybe part of the problem is that you’re not making enough time for reflection and solitude and prayer. Are you avoiding God, Joel? Are you trying to run from Him the way Shadow has run from us?” He”
― Mindy Starns Clark, Lilies on Daybreak Pond

“Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.”
― Mindy Starns Clark, Secrets of Harmony Grove