rachel

“You can be at all fronts, wherever there is grief, in the power of the cross. Your compassionate love takes you everywhere, this love from the divine heart. Its precious blood is poured everywhere, soothing, healing, saving.”
― Edith Stein, Edith Stein: Essential Writings

“I am a stranger to the little girl I was, and more—more strange. But many facts about a life should be left out, they are easily replaced.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot