In other words, I could either study meaning or I could experience it.
“I would have liked to stick my toes in the sand, or ride a tall horse. Today, I will go buy fifty pounds of cat food, and like it.”
― The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
― The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
“He is just something that happened to us, in a time of loss and sadness and sickness and uncertainty, when, as the boy Little Arliss said in Old Yeller, we needed us a dog.”
― The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
― The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
“When I’m done, I ceremonially delete the Instagram app and move my banking app to the exact spot where it used to sit. I get in bed and scroll through my account. The big deposit, the interest. It’s infinitely satisfying, and I wish there was a like button to press.”
― Nora Goes Off Script
― Nora Goes Off Script
“IN THE BEGINNING, after he labored over the heavens and the earth, the light and the dark, the land and sea and all living things that dwell therein, after he created man and woman and before he rested, I believe God gave us one final gift. Lest we forget the divine source of all that beauty, he gave us stories.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
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