Bree Dunscombe

“Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie

“If it isn’t also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn’t true.”
― Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

“We can have our junk together in a thousand areas, but if we don’t have love, we are totally bankrupt.”
― Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

“It can't beat us!" Pa said.
"Can't it, Pa?" Laura asked stupidly.
"No," said Pa. "It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up."
Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter