Bethany Lewis

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]”
― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

“You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree