Sharon Green

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Come sing, your choirs exultant, those messengers of God, Through whom the living Gospels came sounding all abroad! Whose voice proclaimed salvation that poured upon the night, And drove away the shadows, and filled the world with light. In one harmonious witness the chosen four combine, While each his own commission fulfills in every line; As, in the prophet’s vision from out the amber flame In mystic form and image four living creatures came. Four-square on this foundation the Church of Christ remains, A house to stand unshaken by floods or winds or rains. How blessed this habitation of gospel liberty, Where with a holy people God dwells in Unity. Latin, 12th Century”
― Phyllis A. Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume Two): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer

“We should impart our courage and not our despair.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing