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“ The schoolroom . . . Olivia had always adored its confines and endless horizons. The melodious purr of the teacher's voice rising up and down her lessons like a musical score. And the sight of book spines--black, blue, green--lined up side by side like London townhouses. Each leather rectangle a gift waiting to be opened and explored and savored. ”

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Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.

~ Julie Klassen

How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books.

~ Julie Klassen

You do not esteem good deeds? She shifted the basket handle to both hands, just as a cool breeze blew a bonnet string across her face. My dear Miss Keene, what would the world be without them? He brushed the string from her cheek. Are we not admonished to be doers and not merely hearers of His word? Yet not on a mountain of good deeds can we climb our way to heaven.

~ Julie Klassen

At the door he turned and looked back. She stood, facing away from him, the sunlight from the window enshrouding her in an unmerited halo of gold. Perhaps, he thought, that was how God saw all His children. Selfish and fallen, yes. But in the forgiving light of His Son, each wore an unmerited halo

~ Julie Klassen