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141 " But I don’t think Mr. Lewis wants us to do that, to assign the things of his life to the things of his story. I think, if I’m guessing right, he wants us to see that stories are all tangled together.Highlight (yellow) - Location 1042 "
― Patti Callahan , Once Upon a Wardrobe
142 " But I don’t think Mr. Lewis wants us to do that, to assign the things of his life to the things of his story. I think, if I’m guessing right, he wants us to see that stories are all tangled together. "
143 " The revelation lasted not long, less than a minute, but also forever; time didn’t exist as a moment-to-moment metronome, but as eternity. I lost the borders between my body and the air, between my heart and my soul, between fear and peace. Everything in me thrummed with loving presence. "
― Patti Callahan , Becoming Mrs. Lewis
144 " when love becomes a god it becomes a devil. "
145 " Oxford held ancient secrets, and if I leaned close enough and was quiet, I could hear its whispers, and then maybe even hear my own. In that place I started to feel the contours and edges of my internal landscape, a world that at thirty-seven years old I’d still never quite mapped. "
146 " He closes his eyes, sets his mind’s eye on the words, and floats on them like a raft. "
147 " How can I know what parts of us are threaded through this story? But one thing I do know—this story would not be what it is without you. Its depth and intimacy would not exist without who we are together. "
148 " A myth tells a truth without the facts. You do not have to believe it is true to see the truth. "
149 " Christianity is not less than a myth, but more than one. "
150 " searching for lost things is inherent in the human psyche. "
― Patti Callahan , Surviving Savannah
151 " baptized his imagination. "
152 " Because even with the dark parts and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served. "
153 " To answer my question: do you love me? Even as I gave love, was I trying just to gain it? "
154 " The face I already possessed before I was born was who I was in God all along, before anything went right or went wrong, before I did anything right or wrong, that was the face of my true self. "
155 " The beauty that brings us to peace and whispers that there's something more. "
― Patti Callahan
156 " No longer was the question Why doesn’t Jack love me the way I want him to? But now Why must I demand that he love me the way I want him to? I was already loved. That was the answer to any question I held out to the world. "
157 " Maybe when we know we will lose someone we love fiercer and wilder. "
158 " A large magnolia tree stood in the side yeard, its thick roots pushing up the earth in all directions and sprouting offshoots that had long since merged with the original tree. Annabelle suspected that by now the smaller trees actually supported the main, ancient trunk, that without them the entire tree would topple. "
159 " I seemed to make things worse when I ironed, not better. "
160 " Nothing is safe, but that’s got to be okay. Nothing is certain and the constant trying to make things certain only causes more heartache. "