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“Perhaps, somewhere, humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Our Simone once took me to task over my ‘sneering’ about prayer. My notion of prayer was juvenile: forget this telephone line to God bullshit, she snapped, hot with impatience. It wasn’t even about God, she said, which I thought must surely be blasphemous. Praying was a way to interrupt your own habitual thinking, she told me. It’s admitting yourself into otherness, cracking open your prejudices. It’s not chitchat; it’s hard labour. She spoke as if all this were obvious. I longed to understand her. It feels always that I am on the edge of some comprehension here but never breaking through to the other side.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
“If the only thing that differentiates us from animals is the fact that we hide to defecate, then being human rests on very little, I thought.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“But still, it has surprised me, over the years, to discover how many people find the idea of habitual kindness to be somehow suspect: a mask or a lie.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
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