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1 " Quilts need air and sunlight every week to keep them fresh and a long soak in summer. "
― Dorothy Adamek , Carry Me Home (Blue Wren Shallows, #1)
2 " Heartfelt gratitude unlocks the goodness of life, my girl. "
3 " When you're this close to the sea, you might as well let the wind soothe the aches, even just a little. "
4 " I, Finella Mayfield, promise to look for and collect God’s fingerprint in a strange land chosen for me by my father. "
5 " Her heart ruffled like a wind torn sail, held, yet ripped. "
6 " I believe God is offering me the chance to lift someone who needs me. My aunt taught me there’s always someone who needs us. "
7 " Instead, she lays her head against my knee and without shame cries and stays there, pinning me so I have nowhere to run or hide and I find myself wrapped in God’s comfort anyway, and with a heart full of tenderness for Molly Jones. "
8 " Satisfaction played across his face in an inescapable symphony of creases and twitches and twinkling blue eyes. "
9 " Jesus loves me, loves me still,Though I’m very weak and ill.From His shining throne on high,Comes to watch me where I lie. "
10 " Some battles are fought against unseen tethers. "
11 " You love her. That’s why you did this. Don’t deny it, there’s a thousand muddy shells out there singing your affections. "
12 " Sometimes … men don’t know how we’ll take their words. They stumble over them in their own minds and wrestle with what they can’t say. It’s much easier to fill a barrow and push it in the rain. He’s laid the path for you, Finella. Question is, will you follow it or go your own way? "
13 " Heartfelt gratitude unlocks the goodness of life, my girl. Love, is the key. "
14 " What I’m trying to tell you, good people, is God draws us to Him in different ways. But He does draw us. He calls and invites but He never insists. Your name, your background, your circumstances, none of these things matter. What matters is how you’re going to respond to God’s love and forgiveness. Where you’ll let him direct you in the days to come. "
15 " I saved my kisses for a fine man, Shadrach Jones. You best be sure of that. And I won’t have you turn me into a liar. "
16 " No one ends up a convict for pretty reasons. Some fall, others are pushed. Australia’s offered many a place to find their feet and new start. "
17 " And neither should he or you or anyone else make him wear the mantle of sinner because of what his father did. "
18 " Neither will give an account to God for anyone else’s sins but their own. And you won’t have to for any but your own. "
19 " Go. Wrap forgiveness as tightly as you dare around this day. Your mother would want that. And Shadrach can’t bury Molly without it. Neither can you. "
20 " That no matter what I’ve done, or where I’ve come from, I’m whiter than the freshest, brightest laundry my own mother could produce. That’s how my faith unfolds. No more stains. Forgiven. Restored. "