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“This was love. Love showed up. Love stayed. Love sacrificed.”
― Sunrise
― 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.”
― Sunrise
― Sunrise
“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.”
― Sunrise
― Sunrise
“When you get on your sled, and yell hike, what happens?”
“The dogs start to run?”
“They explode with so much power, you just have to hold on. Love is like that. You don’t have to create it, you just have to open your heart to it and then let it pour out.”
― Sunrise
“The dogs start to run?”
“They explode with so much power, you just have to hold on. Love is like that. You don’t have to create it, you just have to open your heart to it and then let it pour out.”
― 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.”
― A Mosaic of Wings
― A Mosaic of Wings
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