Janet Richards

“To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The message of Advent doesn’t fit neatly into a sound-bite or vignette. It’s too complex, too deep, to compete with glitter and noise; and it’s a hard sell in a culture that would rather skip straight to the big finish. But Advent is too important to be forgotten, because it is this season that prepares us to encounter our Lord.”
― Kerry van der Vinne, Advent: Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

“And he looked at her, full of gratitude and a sudden, wild conjecture: he had been real for her, she had watched him, and prayed for him during all those years when she, for him had been nothing but a shadow. And she was praying for him still; he would have her prayers to aid him all his life long--he saw this, now, in her face. She said nothing, and she did not smile, only looked at him with her grave kindness, now a little questioning, a little shy.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water