Donna

“But the needs of others were always smaller than the needs of one's own child. Perhaps it was the strange distortion of the crisis, or perhaps it was simply human nature, that the pain of others was never as acute or compelling as one's own pain.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief

“Outside of the books and lectures, he discovered prayer. Real prayer, not the romantic notions of his fervid boyhood___God is my father, God is my friend, God is my protector.
No. God is not this, God is not that. God is.
In his solitary hours at chapel, he came to understand that the opposite of God is not Satan. The opposite of God is not evil. The opposite of God is absence.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“....sometimes when your are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“That's something you forget when you've been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.”
― Anne Tyler, Three Days in June