Grace Ann

“You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of incredibly ridiculous things, which a man is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, although all the time he feels foolish for doing so.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Light itself was your first love: you paint only as a means of telling about light... Ink and catgut and paint were necessary down there, but they are also dangerous stimulants. Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only what they say about Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“We cannot rely on a hopelessly inefficient and burdensome government to fix what we ourselves refuse to do.”
― Candace Owens, Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

“Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what she asked for—for the most part. Now here she sat with a contrite heart—not because she had sinned against God but because she was unhappy that she had been allowed to follow her will to the road’s end.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter