Carey Thomas

“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. We're the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. And everyone else's children can swim.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Just as our pupils dilate to let in more light, prayer adjusts our eyes to see God in the darkness.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“If we suffer deeply, he says, there is no explanation, no reason, no answer that can ease our heart-break. "The only comfort that can do anything-- and probably the most it can do is help you endure, or if you cannot endure to fail and fold without wholly hating yourself-- is the comfort of feeling yourself loved.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep