Ookie H

“CUNNINGHAM: Who couldn’t want to appeal “eternal damnation”? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Someone who was aware of his own self-inflicted erosion of the capacity to be filled by Grace … Someone too prideful to ask for forgiveness even in the face of the fiery furnace. Or maybe, he don’t bother askin‘, ’uz he knows he don’t deserve it! CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, the only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn’t deserve it. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Then let him ask! CUNNINGHAM: I’m asking for him!”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play

“To me, the average person praying is begging for something. Always had too much pride to actually beg.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

“And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.”
― Ken Foster, The Kind I'm Likely To Get: A Collection

“I typically arrive three years too late.
I wish I had been able to sit
in that white, aromatic kitchen and look you in the face
but I was not ready. I was still on my way.”
― Mikko Harvey, Let the World Have You