Jose Skinner

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“One of the purposes for which God instituted prayer may have been to bear witness that the course of events is not governed like a state but created like a work of art to which every being makes a conscious contribution, and in which every being is both a means and an end.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“Vincent was asleep beside him, breathing quietly, and her hair was like a pool of ink in the room’s dim light.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms