“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then
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“Jesus is easy to love and God much harder. Jesus also has his own reality, his place in history, whereas God is like a dim point of light in a dark room, visible only as long as you don’t try to look directly. In the corner of Margaret’s mind he is there, the sense of his presence, but when she tries to catch the sense it vanishes into nothing.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“I don’t want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“he thinks: and the task of life is to show goodness to others, not to complain about their failings.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Seems more plausible that Hell is some revenge fantasy concocted by unhappy people so they could punish all the happy people in their minds.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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