Grace

“Why don't you go to bed for a bit, Glory?" suggested Robert. "It's been a hell of a war."
It's been a hell of a war, he said. I'll never forget it.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“This war. It's stolen our peace. It's stolen our tomorrows as well as our yesterdays.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“I must say, I’m ready to go into the forest. I am ready to go in. It is time for me to enter the forest and lie down, and let the lions come for me. I’ve done enough, I think, I’ve had a good life, and I’m in such terrible pain just now.”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form—or a species—will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose