Mattie

“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy."
"You were jealous..."
"Yes. I can say it now, oddly enough. Right from the start, when he wrote and told me he was married. Perhaps even before there may have been a sort of shadow. I don't know. Everyone expected me to be as delighted as they were themselves, and it wasn't possible. It must sound highly emotional and absurd to you that I should have been jealous. Like a spoilt child. Perhaps that's what I was, and am. The trouble is that I have never known anyone or loved anyone in the world but Ambrose.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
― C.S. Lewis

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It