Lexie

“You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won't give you, and victory today is one of them. This will be one defeat; more will follow. Victories will follow too. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.”
― Matthew Thomas

“Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren’t that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they’d been had found release through a necessary valve.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Finally in seminary I saw that Jesus was both a mirror to humanity and a window to divinity, the modest amount given to mortal eyes to see.”
― William Sloane Coffin Jr., Letters to a Young Doubter