Scott Cripps

“Do you know that line of Kierkegaard’s, Canon Chambers? “There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.” ”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1

“If you cannot forgive your brother,
you cannot forgive your friend.
If you cannot forgive your friend,
you cannot forgive your neighbor.
If you cannot forgive your neighbor,
you cannot forgive your enemy.
If you cannot forgive your enemies,
you cannot be forgiven for your sins.

One who forgives his neighbor ten times will be rewarded ten times.
One who forgives his enemy ten times will be rewarded a hundred times.
One who forgives his neighbor infinitely will be rewarded immeasurably.
One who forgives his enemy infinitely will be elevated infinitely.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar

“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
― Joseph McElroy