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> [“Then light your candles to the living. Say your prayers for the living. Leave the stones where they are, but take your heart with you. Your heart is not a stone. True love demands that, like a bride with her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/then-light-your-candles-to-the-living-say-your-prayers-for-the-living/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

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## More by Kate Braestrup

> [“It is possible that God is the way Annie Payne used to lean her old head against my shoulder...Drew's arms holding me...Ron Dunham walking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/it-is-possible-that-god-is-the-way-annie-payne-used-to-lean-her-old/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Why are you here?” my seminary professors asked me. “You don’t really believe in God, do you?” My brother wrote. Dear professors, dear brother.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/why-are-you-here-my-seminary-professors-asked-me-you-don-t-really/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/a-marriage-willy-nilly-requires-you-to-trust-that-your-spouse-will/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Mrs. Levesque will put me to use as witness, as crutch, as Kleenex, as proxy for Jean-Pierre -- a temporary substitute for all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/mrs-levesque-will-put-me-to-use-as-witness-as-crutch-as-kleenex-as/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Then light your candles to the living. Say your prayers for the living. Leave the stones where they are, but take your heart with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/then-light-your-candles-to-the-living-say-your-prayers-for-the-living/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/all-loves-have-much-in-common-and-any-one-will-offer-a-useful-if-not/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/ah-i-smiled-i-m-not-really-here-to-keep-you-from-freaking-out-i-m/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Eventually, my heart—my fragile glass heart—would again be offered to the mortal hands of another man guaranteed to break it, one way or another,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/eventually-my-heart-my-fragile-glass-heart-would-again-be-offered-to/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/i-can-t-make-those-two-realities-what-i-ve-lost-and-what-i-ve-found/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“God is love, John’s Gospel tells us. That’s a whole theology in three words. The practical application of that theology—God is love—is nearly as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/god-is-love-john-s-gospel-tells-us-that-s-a-whole-theology-in-three/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“But then, a grateful heart beats in a world of miracles. If I could only speak one prayer for you, my children, it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/but-then-a-grateful-heart-beats-in-a-world-of-miracles-if-i-could/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

> [“Trooper Drew Griffith was spiritual, which is to say that he had experiences of the numinous that were both spontaneous and deliberately cultivated. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-braestrup/trooper-drew-griffith-was-spiritual-which-is-to-say-that-he-had/)

[Kate Braestrup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-braestrup/)

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