Michael Grace

“Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“Golden ages, almost by definition, are past: gleeful naivety never lasts for ever.”
― Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics