Cait

“She had come into her beauty. This was not the beauty of her youth, of which she had plenty. The beauty that I am speaking of now was that of a woman who has come into knowledge and into strength and who, knowing her hardships, trusts her strength and goes about her work even with a kind of happiness, serene somehow, and secure. It was the beauty she would always have. Her eyes had not changed. They still seemed to exert a power, as if whatever she looked at was brightened.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“We spoke a language, so to call it, which no one else in the huge heedless world could understand.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I said not long before that work and weakness are comforters. But sweat is the kindest creature of the three--far better than philosophy, as a cure for ill thoughts.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“On a great day the thing that makes it great may fill the least part of it—as a meal takes little time to eat, but the killing, baking, and dressing, and the swilling and scraping after it, take long enough.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces