#kindlehighlight

literary comfort-food down ↗

— Stephen King

#food

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame. ↗

— Jay Bell

#life

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#attitude

There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. ↗

— Tony Jones

#love

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God. ↗

— Henry B. Eyring

#faith

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#beauty

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing... ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#family

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It’s like they’re sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play. ↗

— Helen Smith

#life