“Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.”
― Q & A
― Q & A
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
(Little Gidding)”
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And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
(Little Gidding)”
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“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.”
― At Home in Mitford
― At Home in Mitford
“I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!”
― A Light in the Window
― A Light in the Window
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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