“I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”
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“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”
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“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
Wendy’s 2025 Year in Books
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