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61 " A sense of calm so pervasive I didn't recognize the stillness inside. It might pass-the need and fear might rise again as old and familiar comforts. But deep down, I knew the Truth now. "
― Patti Callahan , Becoming Mrs. Lewis
62 " Boys,” I said when I tucked them in a week before my leaving, “I love you so much. As big as the universe. "
63 " I know you think the whole world is held together by some math formula.” His voice has an unaccustomed annoyance in it. “But I’ve thought about this a lot, and I think the world is held together by stories, not all those equations you stare at. "
― Patti Callahan , Once Upon a Wardrobe
64 " Yes, I was committed to staying married. I wanted to make it work with Bill, and yet my mind was consumed with what to say or write to another man and what he might say to me in return. This wasn’t infidelity, but what was it? "
65 " All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. "
66 " I don’t know the right answer to anything these days.” “Neither do I, Mum. I don’t know if anyone does. Only math problems seem to have right and wrong answers, far as I can tell lately. "
67 " Why did the everyday-ness of my life sometimes feel constricting, when the everyday-ness was everything? "
68 " Words,” Jack said quietly. “The joy and art of them. Saying exactly what you mean. "
69 " It was two lives I lived: the one right there, the sun extending its warmth toward us, the children calling with happiness, the cry of songbirds in the canopy of oak trees overhead, the splash of lake water. Then there was the second, parallel life: the one where my mind was preoccupied with how to describe this time and feeling to Jack. What would I take of this day to share with him? I was living a life with him in my mind while externally picnicking with my family. It was both disorienting and balancing. "
70 " That God is the storyteller and Providence is his own storyline. "
71 " 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. "
72 " Honestly, Joy, I don't even like writing nearly as much as you do."I stopped and starred at her, bundling my coat closer. "I couldn't live without it.""I don't believe I could either, but I don't love it as much as you do. I live for the one moment when it works. It's like a high I search for again and again, and rarely find. "
73 " Do you ever think about writing one more Narnian chronicle? Just one more? Because you know it will sell?""I think it's best to put an end to it when the readers are clamouring for more rather than when they're weary of the whole everlasting thing. There will be seven of them published in seven years. Sometimes you must know when it is enough. "
74 " It wasn't a wedding a small girl dreams of - the white lace dress and a flowing veil. There were no bridesmaids or a symphony orchestra or long trails of white roses. But what does a small girl know of real love? "
75 " After Peter finished, the silence extended, enveloping us all. The hospital and the world paused with us; time was suspended. It lasted for only seconds but it felt like an eternity in my soul. Outside, a songbird sang a single note. A tray banged across the hallway. A child called out below my window. A doctor called for a nurse, and the world began again. It all began again. "
76 " Inside my mind I heard Bill, but when I opened my eyes to Jack, I knew whatever Bill believed or whatever he'd written did not and could not affect the love that breathed between Jack and me. I understood for the first time the apostle Paul's words, "Death, where is your sting? "
77 " Some secrets stayed hidden. I knew that. The unknown couldn’t always be discovered just because I wanted it. "
― Patti Callahan , Surviving Savannah
78 " You can’t dive to the bottom of the sea or look at the stars or hear a story like you just told me and not believe there is some hidden and unseen force we don’t understand. "
79 " Here we are in this world and seventy-five percent of it is covered in water and we only know a slice of what it's all about. "
80 " Once upon a wardrobe, not very long ago and not far away, "