Ethan

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Burnt Tongues

“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".”
― Helen Garner, Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law

“Conversion is, in fact, a lifelong task.”
― Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catechism of the Spiritual Life