Laura

“The Long Way Home

Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?

Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye

“Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying”
― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old

“There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time

These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny”
― Merrit Malloy, The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye

“What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.”
― Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives – A Stirring Invitation to Accept God's Unfathomable Love