“Instead, for luck, he asked them for 26, because Evvie’s address was 26 Bancroft Street. When he got home and he showed the shirt to Evvie, she said, “Hey, look. That’s my house number. Maybe it’s lucky.” He’d folded it up, saying, “Maybe.”
― Evvie Drake Starts Over
― Evvie Drake Starts Over
“It’s hard to believe Jesus loves the van thieves and all the difficult people we’ve met just the same as you and me.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“The people who creep us out aren’t obstacles to having faith; they’re opportunities to understand it.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“Evvie’s Scandinavian grandmother had claimed that young women dream about the husbands they want, old women dream about the husbands they wanted, and only the luckiest women, for a moment in the middle, dream about the husbands they’ve got.”
― Evvie Drake Starts Over
― Evvie Drake Starts Over
“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
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