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81 " Every life should be guided and enriched by one book or another, don’t you agree? Certainly, every formative moment in my life has been enriched or informed by a book. You must be very careful about what you choose to read—unless you want to stay stuck in your opinions and hard-boiled thoughts, you must be very careful. "
― Patti Callahan , Once Upon a Wardrobe
82 " I love you to the deepest sea and back. "
― Patti Callahan , Surviving Savannah
83 " How will we survive the surviving? "
84 " ... the past echoes into our present time if only we turn our ear toward its stories. "
85 " Yet there is no figuring life out, or not in any way that protects us from the tragedies of the heart. "
― Patti Callahan , Becoming Mrs. Lewis
86 " You know,” he said finally, “not everyone who survives trauma becomes a better person. The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense. "
87 " The fantastic and the imaginative aren’t escapism. "
88 " So many bad things happen.” “Yes, they do and always will, and yet, all will be well. "
89 " The idea that surviving brings everyone to a new and better place is a lie told by people who need the world to make sense. "
90 " My new nylons rubbed pleasantly against my thighs. "
91 " ...you must not believe all that authors tell you about how they write their books. When the story is finished, he has forgotten a good deal of what writing it was like. "
92 " You think turning imagination into logic will help George? Will that answer his most important questions? In my opinion, lists never answer the biggest questions. "
93 " He is the man he appears to be. His charm isn’t a cover, as it seems most boys’ charms are, but instead is an outgrowth of his true-blue character and wit. "
94 " 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. "
95 " The Truth: I was beloved of God. Finally I could stop trying to force someone or something else to fill that role. "
96 " Past tears are present strength, "
97 " As a child I’d also been enchanted by the sky and the stars. The firmament demanded nothing of me, yet offered everything. "
98 " there is no use in lamenting what might have been, for we are here and there is a life after horror. There is tragedy behind, and it trails us and walks alongside us, but still there is the great mystery of life after. "
99 " surviving a trauma is significant, even a triumph of sorts. It’s a second chance. "
100 " There were many ways to survive and many ways to survive the surviving. The darkness was there, too. Survival wasn’t just about the happy story of living. Some didn’t survive the living. Some did awful things with the second chance. "