Jasmine

“that the past never stays where we try to keep it, stuffing it deep into the back of a closet and hoping to forget.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“Even in ruin, there is beauty.”
― Kimber Silver

“We both have some shattered edges,” he whispered. “But maybe God isn’t afraid of our brokenness. I hope he’s not, anyway.”
― Liz Johnson, The Last Way Home

“To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feeling has incorporated itself, it is difficult to enter into that simple, untaught state of mind in which the form and the feeling have never been severed by an act of reflection,,,but to him this would have been an effort of independent thought such as he had never known;”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner