Phil Kline

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

“He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it cause him despair. He realized that he was forgiven for sins from the beginning of time, when he had conceived in his own heart the sin of Adam, until the present, when he had denied poor Nelson. He saw that no sin was too monstrous for him to claim as his own, and since God loved in proportion as He forgave, he felt ready at that instant to enter Paradise.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things