Erin

“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
― Tobias Wolff

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Rohr

“All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.”
― Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.”
― Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage