Molly

“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?"

"Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“If you ever need to—and I hope you never need to, but a person cannot be sure—if you ever need to sleep, if you are ever so tired that you feel nothing but the animal weight of your bones, and you’re walking along a dark road with no one, and you’re not sure how long you’ve been walking, and you keep looking down at your hands and not recognizing them, and you keep catching a reflection in darkened windows and not recognizing that reflection, and all you know is the desire to sleep, and all you have is no place to sleep, one thing you can do is look for a church.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“It seems that people who belong to a large church might want that church - so vast, so many rooms - to do the believing for them, but the church is just a building. The church has no thoughts.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew