Ellie Chiv

“My dearest Clara,

I have thought and thought of what I might say on the day of your departure, but as with most unpleasant things, that day has come far too soon. I find myself wholly unprepared to bid goodbye to you, and as lacking in eloquence with a pen and ink as I am when I speak. I’m constrained by the limits of language. No words are adequate to express the light you have brought into my life. I can only say this:

The past weeks with you have been the brightest period of my memory. I shall treasure them always.

If you remember me down the years, I hope it will be as a man who was honored to know you, and to be in your company. And who might have loved you all of your days if things had been different.

Yours faithfully,

Neville Cross”
― Mimi Matthews, The Winter Companion

“He had the queerest feeling that he was the only one who was privileged to see just how beautiful she was. As if it were a secret, locked up tight, to which only he held the key.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Winter Companion

“I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God’s own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me.”
― Don Miller

“This is what God is doing in our lives. But what song will you sing when your soul gets set free? I think it will be something true and beautiful.”
― Don Miller