When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

Francine Rivers
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More Quotes By Francine Rivers
  1. Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

  2. Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

  3. Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

  4. Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

  5. I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

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