Quotes from Leslie Gould

Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms His child.

Enjoy today because it won't come back.

Midafternoon, I went in for a drink of water, and Edna offered me a piece of strawberry pie. How could I refuse?

Where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,

Until we weren't.

She'd been Dat's dog, and he had named her Love, he said, because God had blessed him with a life of love. I thought it a ridiculous name at first, especially when Dat called, "Here, Love!" but it grew on us in time. And it turned out to be the perfect name for her. All dogs loved unconditionally—but Love would have won the first-place prize if one existed.

Was a good read. Takes place in Lancaster County Pa. I have always wanted to visit there.

Do you have to overthink everything! Can't you just enjoy life for once!

Well, the reason I called is . . . because he left me a message, and said he was coming back, and that he hoped to see me, a lot.

Back then I'd told her, over and over, not to judge people by the way they looked. Or where they lived. Or by their horse or their buggy or their barn. But those days when I held such influence were long gone.

Leon laughed again. "That's why it's so hard to hurry kids. They're not thinking about what happened yesterday or what has to happen later today. They just want to enjoy now.

I think home is the most beautiful word in the world—no matter what language one speaks.

Really?" No one had told me that before. I'd suspected I'd always been a little cynical. "What happened to me?" I pondered. Edna laughed. "Oh, you'll be happy again. You've had a rough couple of years is all. You're just coming into your own. It takes a while. I remember being your age.