Carey Thomas

“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

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“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

“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