Adam Bradley

“If family decline didn’t exist, reality TV would have to invent it.”
― Mary Eberstadt, How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization

“This is why so much of the discussion about “modernity” and “postmodernity” is just pretentious. What we call Enlightenment modernity was just the period when our public authorities fell into unbelief. Postmodernity is when they discovered that unbelief is a slippery place, and they fell into it deeper.”
― Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

“Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured," said Gandalf.
"I fear it may be so with mine," said Frodo. "There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Lamb was the worst-cooked meat in America. Some culinary know-nothing had sold the entire country on 175 degrees as the correct internal temperature for a done leg. Done-in would have been a better word.”
― Robert Farrar Capon, Light Theology and Heavy Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro and Madeline