Frances Bakke

“Selah is found in the Hebrew Bible seventy-four times. Scholars believe that when it appears in the text, it is a direction to the reader to stop reading and be still for a moment, because the previous idea is important enough to consider deeply. The poetry in scripture is meant to transform, and the scribes knew that change begins through reading but can be completed only in quiet contemplation. Selah appears in Hebrew music, too. It’s believed to be a signal to the music director to silence the choir for a long moment, to hold space between notes. The silence, of course, is when the music sinks in.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“It’s possible to both know and not know something.’ ”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“the problem with dropping out of the world is that the world moves on without you,”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel