"I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories."

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Source : FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

J. California Cooper

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
“The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.”

Source : Russell D. Moore (2015). “Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel”, p.84, B&H Publishing Group
“In Iraq, we did have dictators, we did have times of war but it never reached the point where one person, or a group, would be attacking another group and would be enslaving all the women of that group.”
“You are so very wonderful and fill our lives with cheer, today's a celebration for a daughter-in-law so dear. Happy Birthday”
“Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?”
“Miracles do not happen.”
“If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.”
“People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.”

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