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In that all is confusion, hurry, and terror; in this are perfect repose, beatic hope, and heavenly consolation. Peace in his countenance, his hand on the gospel, his soul devoutly ascending to eternal bliss, his affectionate children, some
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“Sometimes things must break before they can be made whole again, so that they can be forged into something stronger.”
― Dreams Lie Beneath
― Dreams Lie Beneath
“But fathers often underestimate their daughters, don’t they?”
― Dreams Lie Beneath
― Dreams Lie Beneath
“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force that has not power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
“The room of love is another world. You go there wearing no watch, watching no clock. It is the world without end, so small that two people can hold it in their arms, and yet it is bigger than world on world, for it contains the longing of all things to be together, and to be at rest together. You come together to the day's end, weary and sore, troubled and afraid. You take it all in your arms, it goes away, and there you are where giving and taking are the same, and you live a little while entirely in a gift. The words have all been said, all permissions given, and you free in the place that is the two of you together. What could be more heavenly than to have desire and satisfaction in the same room?”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
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