Carry Me Home Quotes

“Heartfelt gratitude unlocks the goodness of life, my girl.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Heartfelt gratitude unlocks the goodness of life, my girl.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Aunt Sarah says I must mark the days. She says they are, each one, touched by God and I must look for his fingerprints at day’s end. But I need not look far. His forgiveness and love have shaped me from inside, and I will never be the same.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Best way we can honor her is to grow that love for one another and fill our days with it.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“If we never let it go it means we don’t believe God is big enough to take it.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“That no matter what I’ve done, or where I’ve come from, I’m whiter than the freshest, brightest laundry my own mother could produce. That’s how my faith unfolds. No more stains. Forgiven. Restored.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Go. Wrap forgiveness as tightly as you dare around this day. Your mother would want that. And Shadrach can’t bury Molly without it. Neither can you.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Neither will give an account to God for anyone else’s sins but their own. And you won’t have to for any but your own.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“And neither should he or you or anyone else make him wear the mantle of sinner because of what his father did.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“No one ends up a convict for pretty reasons. Some fall, others are pushed. Australia’s offered many a place to find their feet and new start.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“I saved my kisses for a fine man, Shadrach Jones. You best be sure of that. And I won’t have you turn me into a liar.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“What I’m trying to tell you, good people, is God draws us to Him in different ways. But He does draw us. He calls and invites but He never insists. Your name, your background, your circumstances, none of these things matter. What matters is how you’re going to respond to God’s love and forgiveness. Where you’ll let him direct you in the days to come.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Heartfelt gratitude unlocks the goodness of life, my girl. Love, is the key.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Sometimes… men don’t know how we’ll take their words. They stumble over them in their own minds and wrestle with what they can’t say. It’s much easier to fill a barrow and push it in the rain. He’s laid the path for you, Finella. Question is, will you follow it or go your own way?”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“You love her. That’s why you did this. Don’t deny it, there’s a thousand muddy shells out there singing your affections.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Some battles are fought against unseen tethers.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Jesus loves me, loves me still,
Though I’m very weak and ill.
From His shining throne on high,
Comes to watch me where I lie.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Quilts need air and sunlight every week to keep them fresh and a long soak in summer.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Satisfaction played across his face in an inescapable symphony of creases and twitches and twinkling blue eyes.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Instead, she lays her head against my knee and without shame cries and stays there, pinning me so I have nowhere to run or hide and I find myself wrapped in God’s comfort anyway, and with a heart full of tenderness for Molly Jones.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“I believe God is offering me the chance to lift someone who needs me. My aunt taught me there’s always someone who needs us.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“Her heart ruffled like a wind torn sail, held, yet ripped.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home

“I, Finella Mayfield, promise to look for and collect God’s fingerprint in a strange land chosen for me by my father.”
― Dorothy Adamek, Carry Me Home