Leigh Cox

“A fine woman, that,’ said Mr Appleby generously. ‘Y’ think so,’ returned Fr Duddleswell, his mind not really on it. ‘I would trust her with me life but not with anything important.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“It were wiser to speak less of God, Whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul

“Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.”
― Michael Hulse, The 20th Century in Poetry

“I asked him, half-seriously, if he ever asked God to help him give it up. ‘The drink? I only have the courage to pray for sobriety, d’you know, when I’m drunk.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father