#light

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort.” “Oh?” “The taken. The uninterested.” “As opposed to… you, Gabriel?” “Well, yes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #gabriel-lightwood #will-herondale

They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn't look any different. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #simon-lewis #clary-fray

Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!" "So would I," said Gideon from across the room. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#gideon-lightwood #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

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

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit

Give me wings or I will make them. Either way I will fly. ↗

— Céline

#freedom #metaphor #freedom

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

#intelligence

If it feels like cracks are forming in your life, those cracks may be what is needed for the light within to reveal itself. ↗

— Heidi DuPree

#life

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#light #love #self #faith

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#blog #trouble