Morgan Khandani

“Like the bride who marries into other families, a child is meant to grow up and take care of their parents in their old age. They wanted us because they're afraid to die alone or leave no legacy, but here we are - forced to survive in a world with strange rules and now an uncertain future.”
― Trang Thanh Tran, They Bloom at Night

“Why does God always have to make everything so difficult? I know we are put on earth to test our faith, but why can't He make our time here a little more enjoyable? Why does everything have to be such a cross?”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land a Memoir

“We have a thing for bone yards, as we do for all things death-related. It's part of our religion, the topic of countless sermons: Where will YOU spend ETERNITY? THE AFTERLIFE: Endless BLISS or Endless TORTURE? We are haunted by these questions. If we die tomorrow, will we join the choir of angels or slow roast in Hell? We're not sure of the answer. So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

“Like, you walk away from a person you can't help, you don't want to help, and you leave them there in your old life with all their problems and their sorrow, and you're risking the version of reality where you could have fixed them. I can't fix anybody. I've got my own shit, we all do. Every time you leave someone's life you risk being the worst thing that's ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them, don't you?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love