Karis Briscoe

“A grin is only a smile that’s fully decided to get on with it.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

“Hawkes began slowly. “It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with loss.” “It feels impossible, for longer than is comforting. And then too tentative to trust.” “It does. But it seems that sword pierced Christ so that we always have a future. Even one different than planned.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

“That’s where they were taking her, to a street called Heaven… whoever named (it that) certainly had a healthy since of irony. Not that it was a living hell. It wasn’t. But it sure as hell wasn’t heaven either”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I've got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is!...
Wilbur was merely suffering the doubts and fears that often go with finding a new friend. In good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte. Underneath her rather bold and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.”
― E. B. White, Charlotte's Web