“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over, hoping that someday we’ll create a habit so strong it will carry us through our bouts… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math” — rhoda janzen Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil had the… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: its when you don't love somebody that you do notice the little… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over,… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“I think maybe I'd still nod and smile and have lunch with him. I think maybe I'd still go to the Noam Chomsky documentary… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have? — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“This was as true and sweet as ice cream in December. We each had our different priorities. If you held them lightly and used… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
