Mindy

“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

“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

“When the war is over, will you still love me?
In that moment, the realization crystallized, and his focus narrowed to the one truth that had come so plainly to his mind. She was the only thing in the world he really wanted. And not in the way most men want women. He didn't want to assuage a need. He didn't want to lose himself temporarily in her body. He wanted to live for her. Beyond the moment, beyond the war. Always.
He'd entered a place, or maybe he'd been walking toward it, or around it, all his life, but the dragons he'd once sought to slay were not the same. The dragons of lust and vanity and greed. The dragons of selfishness and ambition. The dragons of mortality and the need for power. Those dragons were gone, and in their place was unconditional love and a desire to sacrifice and submit, to lay down every need and ambition, for someone else. For Eva. The gospel of love and peace he'd suffered to impart and the God he'd struggled to serve were still the same. The difference was in Angelo.”
― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash

“I'm convinced everyone is a little vile, if they are honest about it. Vile and scared and human.”
― Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander