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Category: Charles Martin

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

falsehood, lies, pretending

He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t let it get complicated. Gray it ain’t. It’s black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.

good-vs-evil, morality

Child,” she said placing her head to mine and her callused fingers on my cheek, “you can whip it and beat it senseless, you can drag it through the streets and spin on it, you can even dangle it from a tree, drive spikes trough it, and drain the last breath from it, but in the end, no matter what you do, and no matter how hard you try to kill it, love wins.

Love is a choice. It’s a decision.’ She told us, ‘It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it’ll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

decision, heart, love, river

He picked up one of Lorna’s roses and set it in my lap. “Here.” I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. “See what I mean? Thorns don’t stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them…. Cause the rose is worth it… Think what you’d miss.

roses, thorns, tough-life, tough-times, worth

I watched her—the way her shoulders moved with the tilt of her head, how her smile lit up the six people around her, how her hair, tucked behind her ears, framed her face like baby’s breath. I thought about how the sound of her heart beating sounded the rhythm for our dance atop the magnolia floor. I wanted to tell her all this, but didn’t know how. Just because something is broken doesn’t mean it’s no good. Doesn’t mean you throw it away. It just means it’s broken, and broken is okay. I wanted to tell her that broken is still beautiful, still works, still wakes me in the morning, and at the end of every day past and those to come, I can love broken.

When we’re down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we’re made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

inspirational, life-lessons, sports

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman’s breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.

cancer, cancer-quotes, life, life-and-death

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it’s honest, it’s a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone’s soul.Hats can do the same thing.

hats, souls, wishes

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break….love did what hatred can not and never will.

forgiveness, redemption

I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered – especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.

forgiveness, healing, inspirational, life-lessons

You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?’ I nodded. ‘Well, love is like that. Light doesn’t have to announce it’s way into a room or ask the darkness to leave. It just is. It walks ahead of you, and the darkness rolls back like a tide.’ She waved her hand across the room. ‘It has to ’cause darkness can’t be where light is.

darkness, light, love, miss-ella