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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 ...more
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“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.”
Kyriacos C. Markides, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

J.R.R. Tolkien
“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.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Lisa See
“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.”
Lisa See, Peony in Love

Chang-rae Lee
“And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I that that's not right, either' in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in a lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary. [pp. 320-321]”
Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life

Hadley Vlahos
“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.”
Hadley Vlahos, The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

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