Tania Collier

“The gospel will not ever tell us we are innocent, but it will tell us that we are loved; and in asking us to receive and consent to that love, or asks us to identify with, and make our own, love’s comprehensive vision of all we are and have been.”
― Rowan Williams, Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel

“I’ve done things in my time that would make the curly hairs in your pants go straight. Female or not, I reckon I’ve got bigger balls than you have.”
― Suzanne Wright, Here Be Sexist Vampires

“Such was the carnival atmosphere that Brenner, her boss, his wife, and a local journalist managed to summon up the courage to walk directly toward the white line of the border crossing—where twenty-eight years ago tanks had famously faced one another—to present the East German guards with bottles of champagne. The guards refused the offer, but they didn’t point their weapons, or bark out warnings. It was a surreal moment as the joyous posse from the Adler walked back to the café and prepared the bar for guests—lots of them.”
― Iain MacGregor, Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

“Why do you treasure your voice
when to be one thing
is to be next to nothing?”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris