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My Last Name
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There is an oldness—and not a good oldness—that settles on a person, even a young person, when they have walked through seasons of grief and disappointment. There is a seriousness that settles on a person when they have felt the weight of
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“The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.”
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“Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild, and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.”
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“But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.”
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Joan’s 2025 Year in Books
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