Intimate Life Lessons: developing the intimacy with God you already have. Quotes

“Linda Boone”

“Linda Boone”

“The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.”

“A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.”

“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.”

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”

“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.”

“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”

“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.”

“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.”

“There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives.”