Faith never stays put. It’s always challenging always questioning. That’s what makes it real.
My strength was returning as we went on. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself-courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace- and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
Physically, mentally, emotionally — it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.
In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.
It’s never too late to stop believing a lie,” said Thomas. “You need only courage and friends, and you have both.
Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. “You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won’t forget that.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.
She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother’s touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.
You can’t be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
We can’t go back, Alexa”, he said. ” We can’t go back once we’ve started growing up, and the world can’t be made simple again.
There’s something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.
But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
It all scares me, and it’s all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.
But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.