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“...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“It was a crude drawing of a smiling, female stick figure with red hair and a T-shirt that read “Kerry.” Above Kerry’s head was a yellow dog. Those two elements alone, of course, would not have caused a problem. Unfortunately, there was a third element to the drawing: a shower of large brown clumps raining down from the yellow dog’s rear onto Kerry’s face. And just in case the viewer wasn’t sure how Kerry felt about that, a thought bubble protruding from her head read, “I like it.” “It’s very upsetting,” my teacher said. “Why is the dog above her head? That doesn’t even make sense. How’d he get above her head?” he asked, turning to me. “I don’t know,” I said. “You have to draw a hill or something under the dog. A dog can’t just float up into the atmosphere and take a shit on someone’s head. I mean, I know you’re six or seven or whatever, but that’s pretty basic physics right there,” he said. “Mr. Halpern, that’s really not the issue,” my teacher said. “I dunno, seems like a pretty big issue to me. At least we know we can cross artist off the list,” he said.”
― Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Hidden Gallery

“If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won." - Agatha Swanburne”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!”
― Maryrose Wood, The Hidden Gallery

“We all have our personal Andes.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living....”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

“We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world.”
― Nando Parrado

“...when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimensions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means we haven't reached it yet.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“One of the most amazing things about elephants mourning in the wild is their ability to grieve hard, but then truly, unequivocally, let go. Humans can't seem to do that. I've always thought it's because of religion. We expect to see our loved ones again in the next life, whatever that might be. Elephants don't have that hope, only the memories of this life. Maybe that's why it is easier for them to move on.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it’s like dropping by for a visit, and then they go back to whatever it is they were happily doing in the next life. On the other hand, earthbound spirits—ghosts—are folks who pass but still have unfinished business. They feel like they’re going to be judged for something they did wrong; or they don’t know they are dead; or they are angry about being dead and not getting to finish something. They have been cheated out of life. They stay on a plane that’s closer to the plane of earth, and that’s why they’re always at the corners of our vision and the edges of our dreams. Once they complete the process and resign themselves to the fact that their time on earth is finished and they’ve done what they can do, they can move to the next level.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“It's no small feat, finishing a journey," I tell her. "But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Where there is support, there is no grief.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“the universe wants from us is two things: don’t do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time