Ruhegeist

“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.”
― Charles de Lint, The Mystery of Grace

“Religion was no cure for dysfunction.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall