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She would do what she always did during social events: hide when she could and keep her mouth shut when she couldn’t. It wasn’t that she did not like people, or that she was particularly shy. But experience had proven that if Cassie found
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“Maybe the song you’re writing is for one specific heartbroken soul who won’t be born for another four hundred years.”
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
“It’s not that I don’t want to help you, Dorothy, I do…But I’m no Jessica Fletcher. I have no idea how to solve a murder.”
― Murder by Cheesecake
― Murder by Cheesecake
“the end begins like all the beginnings before.”
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
“So what do you do on the days you can’t move on?”
Julie smiled, though it wobbled a little. “Trust God and try again tomorrow.”
― Martin Legacy
Julie smiled, though it wobbled a little. “Trust God and try again tomorrow.”
― Martin Legacy
“None of us here deserved God’s saving grace either, but we accepted it anyway because we needed it,” he continued. “Life isn’t about deserving things. It’s about doing the best we can with what we have.”
― Martin Legacy
― Martin Legacy
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