“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.” ChildrenFactsHandsFacesAsksLinesHappenedAirHairHearingInvisibleHypocrisyAshamedGrayUnseenSighThankfulnessAltarsWrinklesRadiantHymnsPsalmsAnthemVacantKneelingGray HairInquirers Author:Joseph Parker
“People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.” PeopleLeftStuffVoiceWaterBehindsHairClothesSightHearingFixedMakeupUnreachable Author:Ann Brashares
“There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.” HeartBitsPiecesBloodHairMy HeartClothesHearingScar Book:Ariel: The Restored Edition Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.” EyeGivenVoiceGoneKnowingHairRedBlueMovedHearingEnduranceAtomsFortitudeOccasionalGlowingBlue EyesSensoryRed HairFreckles Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.” PeopleLostLeftFeltStuffVoiceWaterBehindsHairClothesSightIndividualityDeeperHearingFixedMakeupRenewalUnreachable Author:Ann Brashares