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"For the king hated all witticisms, and punning especially."

"'My dear queen,' said he, 'duplicity of any sort is exceedingly objectionable between married people of any rank, not to say kings and queens; and the most objectionable form duplicity can assume is that of punning.'"

Sir! 😡

"He thinks, It is only love that lets us forgive the inconvenience of other people. He thinks, Baba gave me love. I wasn't supposed to wrench it from his hardened fist. A father just gives it like water." 😭

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience."

"That is because you are a bigot." Starting off strong with Letter Lewis!

This proposal's feeling like one of those "Is your child texting about XYZ" memes. Here for it though.

Quite a lot of folks blushing so far.

"Hope is an uncomfortable project. But to this we are called, and not without some assurance of its worth."

"Geniuses find out truths not tricks."

*googles young George Strait*

"A poet is a man who is glad of something and tries to make other people glad of it too."

Interesting tidbits on the Samaritan woman and what her previous five marriages could have meant (divorce practices, likelihood of husbands' deaths, her social situation). Also good exploration of the complexity of 1 Timothy 2:15 and the evolution of its interpretation from early church times through the Reformation.

Day 5: Silence wrecked me — Anderson juxtaposes Zechariah's wordlessness with his son as the voice preparing the way for the Messiah. Plus good food for thought on his unbelief/suspicion in the face of answered prayer.

(I am behind on my Advent reading clearly.)

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."

"I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."

"Yet now that I have leave to depart, I would remain. For this House has become to me of all dwellings the most blessed." 😭