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“Will God send the wind?” Gwen asked when Thomas joined them. “If it pleases Him,” Thomas said. “And often it pleases Him to answer the prayers of the faithful.” “Does He not always answer prayers?” “I believe He does,” Thomas said. “But
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“Anyone who leaves home always carries a piece of it with them.”
― The Brighter the Light
― The Brighter the Light
“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
“The man began speaking to me. “When I was a boy, I worked as a messenger for the telegraph company. The sky was even darker from the mills then than it is today, and on bad days, I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. To deliver my messages in the allotted time, I had to memorize the streets because I couldn’t always see where I was going. Sometimes, I’d have to assist deliverymen who’d lost their way by walking along the curb with one hand on their horses. From this experience, I learned that when you’ve gone astray, a helping hand will always emerge from the darkness.”
― Carnegie's Maid
― Carnegie's Maid
“You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need, and it won't be what you imagine - you will easily toss aside unfinished work, and bills, and your daily calendar to make room for the pair of flannel pajamas you wear when it rains; and the stone your child gave you that is shaped like a heart; and the battered paperback you revisit every April because it was what you were reading the first time you fell in love. It turns out that what's important is not everything that you've accumulated all these years, but those few things you can carry with you.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
Cheri’s 2025 Year in Books
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