Scott Wallace

“… she thought about her choices… [how] something you loved so much, like the girl she held to now, could also be a reminder of one of the greatest mistakes you’d ever made… until she understood that mistakes could turn into amazing, wonderful, cherished things... with the right perspective.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal

“If God had let me come at once, as I prayed, then everything would have been different, I should only have had a little bread to bring to grandmother, and I should not have been able to read, which is such a comfort to her; but God has arranged it all so much better than I knew how to; everything has happened just as the other grandmother said it would. Oh, how glad I am that God did not let me have at once all I prayed and wept for! And now I shall always pray to God as she told me, and always thank Him, and when He does not do anything I ask for I shall think to myself, It's just like it was in Frankfurt: God, I am sure, is going to do something better still. So we will pray every day, won't we, grandfather, and never forget Him again, or else He may forget us.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Never let something trivial, like a sense of humor, get in the way of a good joke.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter