Kaylee Holt

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“The nost in nostalgia means “homecoming”; the algia means “pain.” Hundreds of years ago, nostalgia was a diagnosable medical condition. Johannes Hofer, a seventeenth-century Swiss physician, named the condition, which he identified in homesick soldiers. Symptoms of nostalgia among Swiss soldiers included melancholy, malnutrition, sleepiness, brain fever, and hallucinations.”
― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“What does your god say?” “He says many good things. But it can all become a bit confusing. Such as how is it that God allows the Devil to harry people so.” “You speak often of gods and devils. What is the difference?” “That’s easy,” Abitha said. “Gods are benevolent, looking over their flock in return for their devotion. Devils vex and torment.” “And what if it is not that simple?” Samson asked. “Can a god be both slayer and shepherd? Reward and vex? Does your god only do good?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“Why does her mother not ask the Christ God to heal her child?” “She has. We all have. Many, many, prayers.” “And this Christ God does nothing?” Abitha shrugged. “We shall see. Sometimes God helps, sometimes He does not.” Samson shook his head. “They need a better god.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery