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Chapter 7 has some incredible quotes about passion, joy, falling in love, and loss. The descriptive prose in this book is highly creative and thought-provoking.

“[Wisdom] is inaccessible to people too busy for its method. It comes through first with experience and then with deep, honest reflection on that experience.”

“The righteous are willing to disadvantage themselves to advantage the community; the wicked are willing to disadvantage the community to advantage themselves.” - Bruce Waltke

“The place between childhood and womanhood is a wilderness of briars and monsters we all must cross. When we cross as girls, we’re slashed by thorns and whipped by awkwardness, and on the other side, we’re one with womanhood, but we’re never as we were before. We are, in many ways, strangers to ourselves.