She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn’t have. I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels
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“the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“I reminded myself to live for today, not the fears of tomorrow—a promise I had made to myself when I started working in hospice.”
― The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
― The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love
“The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.”
― The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
― The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love
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