Pat

“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship