A little cold spot in the pit of his stomach was growing. He hated that cold feeling. He'd not even spoken its name. But it was fear.
(~Ted Bell, Nick of Time, p. 2)

"In our world, too," Queen Lucy said, "a Stable once held something inside it that was bigger than our whole world."
(~C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle)

"Don't you think it's rather nice that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us."

"Do you really believe that mother?" Peter asked quietly.

"Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I am so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true..."
(~Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children)

For a long time there was only your footprints and laughter in our dreams, and even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.
(~Brian Andreas, "Story People") ‪

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
(~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
(~ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass)

...God doesn't just touch down in our lives for short periods of time and then take off when He's ready for a new adventure. He sets up camp. Puts up fences. Establishes boundary lines in pleasant places. And then He surrounds us with people who do their very best to make sure we don't wander too far from the fold. 
(~Sophie Hudson, A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet, p. 86)