Excerpts: After You (Jojo Moyes)

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-So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. 

You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: 

the flashbacks, the sleepless night, the endless running over events in your head, 

asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, 

whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently. 

-...enough times will actually make it okay. -Lou

-Allow yourself moments of happiness. -Lou

-I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's centre, their reason of staying.
I saw that I could be enough. -Lou

-We don't know what will happen. Which is why we have to take chances while we can.
And ...I think this might be yours. -Sam

-...it's okay to feel sad. Or lost. Or angry. It's okay to feel a whole host of things that other people might not understand,
and often for a long time. Everyone has his or her own journey. We don't judge." -Marc

-I hope if you're looking down, and you can see me, you're glad. That I exist.
Because me being here sort of means you're still here. -Lily

-I let mine go. -Lou

Excerpts: Me Before You -Jojo Moyes

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‘Hey, Clark,’ he said. ‘Tell me something good.’

I stared out of the window at the bright-blue

Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people.

Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who

didn’t like each other much when they did, but

who found they were the only two people in the

world who could possibly have understood each

other. And I told him of the adventures they had,

the places they had gone, and the things I had

seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for

him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings

full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a

world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial

estate, a world in which he was still somehow

the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world

he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a

way that he couldn’t have known, and for that

alone there would always be a piece of me indebted

to him. 

Excerpts: The Greatest Thing In The World and Other Addresses (Henry Drummond)

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"The people who influence you are people who believe in you."

"Nothing that happens in the world happens by chance. God is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and never at random."

"We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls."

"There are some men and some women in whose company we are always at our best."

"Yesterday you thought mostly about yourself. Today the poor will meet you, and you will feed them. The helpless, the tempted, the sad, will throng about you, and each you will befriend. Where were all these people yesterday? Where they are today, you did not see them. It is in reflected light that the poor are seen. But your soul today is not at the ordinary angle."

"In looking at the mirror one does not see the mirror, or think of it, but only of what it reflects. For a mirror never calls the attention of itself—except when there are flaws in it."

"Begin with His Words. Words can scarcely ever be long impersonal. Christ himself was a Word, a word made Flesh. Make His words flesh; do them, live them, and you must live Christ."

"There are fifty other arguments for miracles, but none so good as that you have seen them. Perhaps you are one yourself."

"Make Christ your most constant companion.. Be more under His influence than under any other influence."