Neil Purcell

“How still it was up here but why was it not ever peaceful?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Where does thinking get us?’ she said. ‘All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Many evangelicals have come to view politics the way a suburban husband views Las Vegas—a self-contained escape, a place where the rules and expectations of his everyday life do not apply. The problem is, what happens in politics doesn’t stay in politics.”
― Tim Alberta, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism