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“I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-”

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a renowned American author, born on December 11, 1948. Her works are known for their humor, warmth, and emotional depth, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.”

People Kind Reality Past Turns Fighting Hero Exercise Divorce Ghost Demon Phantoms Preoccupation Helen

Book:The Sea, The Sea

Source: The Sea, The Sea

“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.”

People Thinking World Way Made Facts Used One Day Incredibles Granted Sat

Book:The Solitaire Mystery

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

“If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.”

Ifs Humans Lying Human Beings Simple Tragedy Theme Suspects

Author:Richard Yates

“Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.”

Way Years Stills Body Felt Tree Six Breaths Fallen Flats Stomach Recalls Intervals Stunned Breathless Six Year Olds

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

Humans Stills Language Vague Precise Human Language

Author:Garth Stein

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.”

Knows Done Past Fighting Speak Felt Hurt Focus Past Present Million Little Pieces Speak Now

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.”

Heart Waiting Bears Oneself Uncertainty Willingness Lifting Unanswered Questions Unanswered Waiting On God Passion And Purity

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.”

Loneliness Wind Burning Height Sand Wilderness Glowing

Author:Amy Carmichael

“We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.”

Giving Should Soul Matter Spiritual Joy Suffering Pure Contentment Conception Consolation Abandonment Lofty Presence Of God Great Joy

Author:Brother Lawrence

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