“land of high mountains” is the aboriginal meaning of the word Haiti).”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“because children, especially sick children, have a toughness unique to their young souls, one that can comfort even the fretting adults around them.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“but the most selfish is hoarding time, because none of us know how much we have,”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you’re using it to wrap a box. But when you’re clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it’s something else entirely.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
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