We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.


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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP
When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP
Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP
When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS
'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE
Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI
You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER