Amanda Bok

“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

“I swear I hear her voice and remember her long-forgotten words: You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. You taught me love. You, first in the whole world, and my love for you will outlive me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed”
― 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