Mandy

“Dodge, be honest. It’s not close to over. You’ve been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you’ve loved since you were ten. There’s no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can’t even see it. But maybe that’s why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunrise

“…love doesn’t come from us - it’s born in us, a birthright from God. We can’t manufacture it, we can only release what He’s given us. That nudge to forgive? I told you– I think that’s love trying to break free.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunrise

“She never considered that her mother’s leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunrise

“Owen took Nora’s hand and squeezed it. She leaned her head against his arm, and beneath the layers of grime and torn silk and the frantic beating of her heart, something whispered to her. A cool cup of water soothing her parched throat. A breeze in the middle of India’s scorching summer. A dance beneath monsoon rains. This is right. This is good. This is worth it.”
― Kimberly Duffy, A Mosaic of Wings