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“But,” she said, “this is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.”
― The Hiding Place
― The Hiding Place
“curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The real battle for your own soul isn’t about falling from a great height; it’s about descending, or not, one choice at a time.”
― Battle Ground
― Battle Ground
“The miracle of letting yourself need and be needed is that you always get something out of it, either way. Neuroscientists talk about the dopamine and oxytocin hit you get from performing altruistic acts. I call it God’s mercy for my inherently selfish character. It is also, in my experience, an antidote to bitterness. When I keep my distance, I am more likely to compare and judge, and bitterness sets in. Communing is the only thing that dissolves it. We have to be in each other’s lives in uncomfortable ways to realize that the shiniest among us don’t have it all together, and the most annoying are still human.”
― It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
― It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
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