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“In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.”

In the two years Halinka has spent in a home for girls, she has learned not to hope for anything, and to hold tightly to what she has.

“There are two ways to build a career or a business. We can go through life hunting and pecking, looking for opportunities or customers, hoping that something connects. Or we can go through life with intention, knowing what our piece looks like, knowing our WHY, and going straight to the places we fit.”

“It’s clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together.”

“I saw it rolling downhill. If I can knock the lumps of it will roll better.”

“It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”

“He shone his torch for the others to follow, then showed them the small space, congested with water tanks, that they had to cross. The boards squeaked under their feet and they held their breath with apprehension.”

“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”

“It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”

“This is their home. I have tried to make it as fine a place as I could. But the plain fact is they cannot leave, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t make them want to.”