Mindy

“The longer he remained on this earth, the more sure he was that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used Him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate. He loved God. He felt God's love in return, but he felt no special claim to that love simply because he'd been raised a Catholic, simply because he was a priest.”
― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body.
I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad. I was both on the right and wrong side of history.
I had, in short, lost myself.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Who was she, deep down? Beneath the witch. Beneath the aristocrat. What made her her?
Did a person change depending on their circumstances? Or was there something permanent about everyone? Something steadfast and true, despite their circumstances?
Rune did not know the answer, and it bothered her.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Omai strokes water off his board. “No. Not for me. Love is where you find the meaning. Those seven years I was with her contained more than anything else. Do you understand? You can take all the years before and since and weigh them next to those, and they wouldn't stand a chance. That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time