Haley

“Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn’t flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternative version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
― Dorothy Day

“if your faith was shaken by foul words or sex scenes, then you must not have had very much to begin with.”
― Kirsten Miller, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books

“Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!” Dr. Geffard pronounces this almost gleefully and pours wine into his glass, and she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See