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Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.


“As every architect or designer knows, there is a critical step between vision and reality. Before imagination becomes three-dimensional, it usually needs to become two-dimensional. It’s as though the unseen order needs to come to life one dimension at a time.”
― Untamed
― Untamed

“land of high mountains” is the aboriginal meaning of the word Haiti).”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“And that, Chika, was the beginning of providence moving our lives together, or the continuance of it, I should say, since the Lord doesn’t get ideas partway through a life.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

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