Jill

“She should be standing before the stove in her new robe, full of simple, encouraging talk. Still, when she opened her eyes a few minutes ago (after seven already!)—when she still half inhabited her dream, some sort of pulsating machinery in the remote distance, a steady pounding like a gigantic mechanical heart, which seemed to be drawing nearer—she felt the dank sensation around her, the nowhere feeling, and knew it was going to be a difficult day. She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself,”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“According to an old sailing proverb, below latitude 40° south there is no law, and below 50° south, no God.”
― Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

“Do we feel God’s presence because we are looking for him, or do we feel it because he is looking for us?”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska