“some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.”
― Deliver Us from Normal
― Deliver Us from Normal
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
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“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
― The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
― The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
One Thankful Mom - Book Group
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A book group for friends of Lisa Qualls, writer of One Thankful Mom. We read and discuss books relevant to parenting children from hard places.
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