Laura

“It was Yahweh, not Satan, who brought this drought upon the people and upon all that they produced. And it is Yahweh who will bring this same sort of spiritual drought upon you and upon all that you produce, if you neglect the house of God to pursue your own personal goals and insist on doing things your own way, while you whistle Frank Sinatra's song.”
― Daniel Botkin, A Heart to Pray & A Mind to Work

“Sometimes it’s as if I’m composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the grain in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse? A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Life rushed at her after her father died, as if to remind her that there can be no less life, that there can be no deprivation of life, that life is an endless and eternal living, even if your father is dead.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour