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21 " Why did the everyday-ness of my life sometimes feel constricting, when the everyday-ness was everything "
― Patti Callahan , Becoming Mrs. Lewis
22 " For a breath or two, I wonder about this magical world we live in. It’s a mystery we can never understand. For a moment, a small and breath-holding moment, I know it to be true: there is more, something more I can’t see, a vivid truth that can’t be described by logic or words alone, a truth that delights the heart. "
― Patti Callahan , Once Upon a Wardrobe
23 " And now here you are, at peace in your Garden of Eden with your brother and your acreage and your students and your Inklings and you friends and your quaint town. All these things both inspire you and protect you. But a change might be in order. Not a change that disrupts, but one that expands." I paused. "Let new things touch your soul. "
24 " Being a Christian isn’t what most think it is—all rules and regulations.” She clinked her glass with the red lipstick stain on the rim against mine. “It is all trust and surrender and transformation, at its best. "
25 " The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love. "
26 " I must know when it is enough. And I must trust God — again and again I was learning and relearning to trust the truth who had entered my sons’ nursery. The rusty and decrepit habit of trusting in only myself, only abiding in my own ability to make things happen, died hard and slow. "
27 " I've spent all of my life in an attempt to find truth and moral good and then to live it. I can't discard my moral habits for feelings, which are just that.(The moral virtues) They are my footholds for moral goodness. Morality is about choice. "
28 " We can't just surrender to our every desire. Man must have his principles and live by them regardless. Our nature must be controlled or it can ruin our lives. "
29 " In a crack of my soul, during the untethered fear while calling for help, the sneaky Lion saw his chance, and God came in; he entered the fissures of my heart as if he’d been waiting a long time to find an opening. Warmth fell over me; a river of peace passed through me. For the first time in all my life, I felt fully known and loved. There was a solid sense that he was with me, had always been with me. "
30 " Maybe we are each and every one of us born with our own stories, and we must decide how to tell those stories with our own life, or in a book . . . Or could it be that all our stories come from one larger story? "
31 " Whenever you'd like to talk about it, you know our friendship is big enough for even the sorrow. "
32 " How do you make a book? I want to make a book.” “First I try to write the very books that I want to read. I see my books in pictures. I watch them unfold, and then I write about it. I tell what I see, and then I fill in the gaps. "
33 " ...waiting and longing are often the cheap fuel of desire. "
34 " I'm trying because I must. "
35 " How can we know what has filtered into our work? This is precisely why we must be careful of what we read. "
36 " But I’m still writing articles for Esquire and working on a novel about an English teacher in New York City. I’ve titled it Up the Down Staircase. Sounds exciting, right?” She rolled those beautiful eyes and laughed that beautiful laugh. “It will probably never see the light outside my writing room. "
37 " If only our house were as full of love as it was books... "
38 " Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight "
39 " Whatever we face together is better than never knowing you at all. "
40 " Yet what draws any two people together toward friendship is what drew you and me—that we see the same truth and share it. "