Lacie Duling

“Looking back, I don’t think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.”
― Mike Gayle, The Museum of Ordinary People

“What helium does to a balloon, Jesus’s yoke does to his followers. We are buoyed along in life by his endless gentleness and supremely accessible lowliness. He doesn’t simply meet us at our place of need; he lives in our place of need.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“Don’t let your guard down for a moment.” Nesta nodded, not bothering to say that she’d operated by that principle for a long time.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“curtsy to that bitch Samantha,”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas