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“And this is where I learned that sometimes our most holy mountain-moving faith looks more like spending our whole lives making that mountain move, rock by rock, pebble by pebble, unsexy day after daily day, casting the mountain to the sea stone by stone rather than watching a mountain suddenly rise up and cast itself.”
― Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
― Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
“What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability.”
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
― The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“Can’t you see? It’s all an act of protest, a snatching back from the darkness, a proclamation of freedom, a revolution of love. And isn’t that a miracle?”
― Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
― Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
“This realization frightened her and made her unable to sleep at night, which, in turn, frightened her more. She feared the restlessness that was creeping upon her. She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
Joleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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