Hanah

“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women