Amanda Bok

“live a double life, to love those around you while concealing your true inner self, to appear to be one person to the external world and quite another inside.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

“In my dreams, I say, I love you, I tell her every day how she shaped me, how she taught me to stand up and find my woman’s voice, even in this man’s world.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“All Loreda could think about was how mean she’d been to her mom. For years. There was so much to say now, to undo. She wanted to tell her mother how much she loved and admired her, how she wanted to be just like her when she grew up. Why hadn’t she said it all before? Loreda wiped her tears, but more kept falling. She couldn’t even be strong for Ant. She prayed for the first time in years. Please, God, save her. I can’t live without my mom.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“The poet Mary Oliver once said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace