Melissa

“What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. Come then, returned the nephew gaily. What right have you to be morose? You're rich enough.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

“Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall.”
― Christie Purifoy, Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons

“Of course you do, child," said mother. "Families were made to cling together, and stand by each other in every circumstance of life—joy or sorrow. Of course you need your family.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, Gene Stratton-Porter’s Collected Works: A Girl Of The Limberlost, Laddie, A Daughter of the Land, Freckles, and More!

“when we belong to the Church we belong to something which is outside all of us; which is outside everything you talk about, outside the Cardinals and the Pope. They belong to it, but it does not belong to them. If we all fell dead suddenly, the Church would still somehow exist in God. Confound it all, don't you see that I am more sure of its existence than I am of my own existence?”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross