Kathleen

“We're carrying the fire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

“This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have.”
― Alexander Maksik, A Marker to Measure Drift

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22