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    Elizabeth George Speare
    “We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.”
    Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow

  • #2
    “You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
    Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • #3
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside

  • #4
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again… I don’t think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children’s children will inherit.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
    tags: life

  • #5
    Markus Zusak
    “She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #6
    Markus Zusak
    “You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #7
    Susan Meissner
    “Home isn't a safe place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same.”
    Susan Meissner, As Bright as Heaven

  • #8
    “If Jesus is the Bread of Life, loss of Jesus means starving. If Jesus is the Light of the World, loss of Jesus means darkness. If Jesus is the Good Shepherd, loss of Jesus means wandering alone and lost. If Jesus is the resurrection and the life, loss of Jesus is eternal death. And if Jesus is the Lamb of God, sacrificed for our sins, loss of Jesus means paying that price for ourselves.”
    Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

  • #9
    “Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives.”
    Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #12
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #13
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #14
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #15
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #16
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?"
    "Can you do it with your left?”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen

  • #17
    Jennifer A. Nielsen
    “Fink had a full bowl and grinned at me as he sat back on the bench. "It would help if you used words like 'please' and 'thank you.'"
    "Then I'll thank you to please stay out of my business.”
    Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #20
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #21
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    Walter Tevis

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

  • #28
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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