Brandi

“Westerners live outdoors more than people elsewhere because outdoors is mainly what they've got.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“Yes. When I want to fill my heart with His love, I open my eyes to the creations of His hand, especially the ones that seem outrageously and uselessly beautiful--sunsets, sunrises, ice crystals, patterns in drying mud, golden cottonwood leaves against red rock cliffs, the melancholy sound of the first cricket in August, moss-covered rocks in a mountain stream, the way a baby laughs before she can do useful things such as talking or walking.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life

“Literature is a function of temperament, and thank God there are many kinds of temperament and therefore many kinds of literature. I can speak only for my own, and after considerable acquaintance I have determined that my temperament is quiet, recessive, skeptical, and watchful. I don't like big noisy scenes, in fiction or in life. I avoid riots and mass meetings. It would embarrass me to chase fire engines. I have a hard enough time making sense out of what my life hands me, without going out to hunt for more exciting events.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life