Cindy

“he draws in a breath—“well, grief is a funny thing, isn’t it? I’ll be perfectly fine, going on about my day, and then I’ll call for you in the other room.” Oh, Marty. “When you don’t answer, it’s like I have to relive it all over again. I’m pretty sure I’ll never get used to the fact that you’re gone.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“We don’t always marry someone we can live with. We marry someone we can’t live without.”
― Karen White, The Attic on Queen Street

“Ya don’t just pass on faith. Ya have to pass on a desire fer ’em to find a faith of their own. Ya have to show ’em daily in the way ya live thet what ya have is worth livin’ an’ fightin’ an’ workin’ fer. A secondhand faith is no good to anyone. It has to be a faith of their own.”
― Janette Oke, Love's Unending Legacy

“Franklin had Mrs. Dogood assert an attitude that would, with his encouragement, become part of the emerging American character: “I am . . . a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country; and the least appearance of an encroachment on those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil exceedingly. I have likewise a natural inclination to observe and reprove the faults of others, at which I have an excellent faculty.” It was as good a description of the real Benjamin Franklin—and, indeed, of a typical American—as is likely to be found anywhere.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life