Emily Grimm

“He held forth about political theory and about Marxism, maintaining that while there was a place for zealots in every revolution-unshakeable belief could carry a marginalized person very far indeed-each ideology held its share of fundamental flaws. For a radical thinker to exist successfully in the world he'd helped to change, he had to embrace the bitter compromises”
― Nathaniel Ian Miller, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

“if you never allow for the possibility that someone might care for you on your own merit, their way of demonstrating it will always feel unusual or inadequate”
― Nathaniel Ian Miller, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

“In our effort to become like him, we actually fall in to a sophisticated form of idolatry-we tend to make Jesus into a perfected version of our image and then strive to become like that. Nope. We will never be like Christ. Let's deny false self, worship him, and be free.”
― Steve Cuss, Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs

“The Knit-Wits have been her friends for years, and sometimes she still feels as if she’s a mistaken jigsaw piece who found her way into the wrong puzzle.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures