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“God doesn’t always give us what we want, but He never abandons us, and He desires for us to draw near to Him in both the good and the bad. He has a plan, even if I don’t understand it or see it clearly. I pray you cling to that truth, as well.”
― Gabrielle Meyer, For a Lifetime

“While there are many things beyond our control, I’ve always thought the cruellest is that we mortals are not told when our last glance is just that.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1

“That Martha Ballard kept her diary is one small miracle; that her descendants saved it is another. When her great-great-granddaughter Mary Hobart inherited it in 1884, it was “a hopeless pile of loose unconsecutive pages”—but it was all there. The diary had remained in Augusta for more than sixty years, probably in the family of Dolly Lambard, who seems to have assumed custody of her mother’s papers along with the rented cow.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

“Objects were just objects until they became the last things that remained of a person’s life.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau