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21 " I would never again wake in the darkness to the sound of my sister’s voice, and experienced the stab of loss anew, a vacancy in my center. "
― Marie Bostwick , The Second Sister
22 " I wouldn’t want to live there, but Washington was a nice place to visit, and that’s what I intended to do: see every single monument and museum, just like the rest of the tourists, marveling at our history and taking pride in the miracle of our democracy, just like the rest of my countrymen. I couldn’t wait. "
23 " When your dreams turn to dust, maybe it’s time to vacuum. "
― Marie Bostwick , A Single Thread (Cobbled Court Quilts, #1)
24 " I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. None of us does. That’s why we get up and go on because, until forever comes, you can’t stay where you are. "
― Marie Bostwick , Just in Time
25 " Old friends remind us of who we were and what we’ve become. New friends hint at who we could be and inspire us to move forward. We need both, the new and old, the grounding of the past and hope for the future, because life is terrible and wonderful all at once, and too hard to face alone. "
― Marie Bostwick , The Restoration of Celia Fairchild
26 " I hear no voice, I feel no touch, I see no glory bright. But yet I know that God is near, in darkness as in light. He watches ever by my side, and hears my whispered prayer. The Father for his little child, both day and night doth care. Amen. "
― Marie Bostwick , Ties That Bind (Cobbled Court Quilts, #5)
27 " When the rich finally meet the poor face-to-face, then poverty will cease to exist. "
28 " Caroline leaned over and whispered into Happy’s ear. “What was her major again? World Domination?” “With a minor in Intimidation,” Happy muttered. “I fully expect her to be named dictator of a medium-sized country before she’s thirty. "
29 " and started “speaking the truth in love,” which, as far as Mary Dell was concerned, was just another word for lecturing, "
― Marie Bostwick , Between Heaven and Texas (Cobbled Court Quilts, #0)
30 " When life gives you scraps, make a quilt "
― Marie Bostwick , A Thread of Truth (Cobbled Court Quilts, #2)
31 " Quilters are some of the most generous, caring, community-minded people you’ll ever meet. But "
32 " I think we owe it to other people to be interesting, or at least not to be dull. "
33 " Everybody gets to choose their own brand of heartbreak. "
34 " The residents of Too Much, patriots all, were all for cutting wasteful government spending, as long as the waste in question was cut out of somebody else’s community, and it didn’t take them very long to make this clear to the young lawmaker. "
35 " The only reason to be an artist is because you can’t not. If you can think of any other way to be happy, then do. Really. Speaking "
― Marie Bostwick , From Here to Home (Too Much, Texas #2)
36 " She was not meant to live simply to endure, but to thrive, to create, and in doing so reflect the glory of creation itself, and the Creator who had fashioned her for this purpose. Before "
― Marie Bostwick , The Promise Girls
37 " Whoever said that diamonds are a girl’s best friend never had a dog. "
38 " Sometimes, when a person dies young, her survivors unconsciously revise her history, choosing to recall only what was good, the acts of kindness and inclinations to nobility, beatifying her memory until she becomes in death what she never was in life: a saint. But that wasn’t what happened to Alice, not exactly. "
39 " If there was just something I could do, some way to make up for—” He sighed. “Lucy, what penance could anyone require of you that you haven’t already laid upon yourself? Almighty God chooses to pardon you; what right have you to reject that pardon? "
40 " Washington—the city with the largest per capita population of pompous, self-absorbed horse’s asses in these United States. "