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Harsh emotions often distracted from the soft, delicate, and vulnerable ones. Anger provided a shield from grief, but it wasn’t a balm. It protected, but it never healed.
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
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“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
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“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― A Little Princess
"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― A Little Princess
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