Olivia

“God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“It is a beautiful country depending on where you look.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I feared, at times, that I had lost my imagination, because I felt boxed in my role as victim. But when I was trapped, I learned I could still move internally. When I felt depressed, I wrote and imagined my future down to the coffee bean. The children's books I will illustrate, the chickens I will have in my yard, the soft cotton linens, the sauce-dipped wooden spoons on the counter. The need for it to come true according to plan was not important. The act of imagining was.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“He had a sudden longing, which wasn't a bit like him now, though it was like the person he had been before the Saxons burned his home, to give Ness things, to bring them and heap them into her lap. New songs and the three stars of Orion's belt, and honey-in-the-comb, and branches of white flowering thorn at mid-winter . . .”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers