The job required the luxurious useless indoor fortitude it has always been my fortune to enjoy.
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.
You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love’s devastations and of life’s roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.
While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can’t do much about how drawers fill up.
If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
