"faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."

- from the novel "Have a little faith" by Mitch Albom

"I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't."

"And one day spent with someone you love can change everything."

- from the novel "For one more day" by Mitch Albom

"There is a reason God limits our days."
"Why?"
"To make each one precious."


- from the novel "The Time Keeper" by Mitch Albom

"for it is often little things that are hardest to stand"

"Anyway, one always feels better when one has made up one's mind.

"They will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."

"For all find what they truly seek."

- from the novel "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis

"On the contrary he liked him very much and was therefore frightened about him, and being frightened put him in a bad temper -just as your mother is much angrier with you for running out into the road in front of a car than a stranger would be."

- from the novel "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis

"That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

- from the novel "Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis

"...if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."

"...years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently."

- from the novel "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

"...a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed."

- from the novel "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis

Love like rain...

"Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

- from the novel, "The five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom

Perspective...

"For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are."

- from the novel "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis

who am i

"...Imagine the kind of person you thought of as a hero - and be that person."

from the graphic novel "Amulet book 5" by Kazu Kibuishi

(love the Amulet series, highly recommended)

just me and you

...

To lay this book in your lap.

Say you're surprised?

Say you like it? 

Say it's just what you wanted? 

Because it's yours...

Because we love you. 

- from the novel: Winnie the Pooh (80th anniversary edition) by A.A. Milne

Life....the longest ride

"If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you." 

"...
Third grade teacher.
She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up.
I can even change the world." 

- from the novel: The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks