Karyn Vorhees

“The other kind of control is self-control, a gift born by the Spirit of God to help us walk in the narrow way of life and to say no to things that pull us aside. I had neglected the Spirit within me, the self-control given to me in him, and I had tried to claim control that wasn’t even possible for me to have. Self-control is a rest in him and his way, and all other striving is an illusion of control that divided me in three, mind from body from soul.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“He felt personally responsible for the intellectual health of the library’s patrons. The popularity of pseudoscience books, which he considered “not worth the match to burn them up,” worried him. Instead of removing the books from the collection, he established what he called the “Literary Pure Food Act” to warn readers about them. He hired a blacksmith to make a branding iron in the shape of a skull and crossbones—the poison warning symbol—and used it to brand the frontispiece of the offending books. He also created warning cards to insert in the questionable books. He wanted the cards to say, “This book is of the worst class that we can possibly keep in the library. We are sorry that you have not any better sense than to read it,”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Everything her mother did was what she thought was best, as all mothers do—invisible service in the shadows of the things for which they themselves had longed.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“I’ve had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems, I’d pick cancer.”
― Kelly Corrigan, Lift