A Few Good Books (Lately Discovered)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card Gossamer, Lois Lowry The Magician's Elephant, Katie DiCamillo The Underneath, Kathi Appelt

Stars

...He would show her the star that was sometimes visible through his window. He would say to her, "Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?"

-Katie Dicamillo, The Magician's Elephant, 147.

But They Who Wait

Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.

-Isaiah 40:30-31