“This is us, I think. Not the people we were inside the house, but the boy and girl who have spent a whole summer together, pledging their love beneath a hundred starry nights.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“I knew I shouldn't talk about Bobby so much. But Leo was curious about him, he kept asking questions. And no one else asks me about him, ever. It's like Bobby is a ghost everyone has forgotten. And I miss him. I miss him so much. I loved telling Leo about him. Once I started, I just couldn't stop.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“There is an ache I have that was not there before, as if I have been catapulted into a foreign universe; where previously lust did not exist, now it's all there is.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“There’s more to life than checking things off a bucket list or prioritizing our relationships. Are we dying to live the “good life” the world offers? Or have we embraced the “Christ life”—the best life, which is made possible only through dying to ourselves?”
― The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith
― The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith
“Ours was a complicated tale with many pieces to fit together. All of us were to blame in some way—Gabriel and me, Frank, Leo, and Jimmy too. Everyone played a part in the tragedy. And everything was about Bobby, really, when you dug deep enough.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
Debbie’s 2024 Year in Books
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