Renee Kahl

“They were not friends. They didn’t know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

“On the other hand, our world may not be a system left to itself. There may in fact be a creative impulse acting on it, the Spirit of God hovering over the dark waters, operating over the course of millennia to bring order out of the chaos.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

“it certainly is the case, as classical theism asserts, that to seek the good is already to believe in God, whether one wishes to do so or not.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“A crazy emotion of hate, of affection, of impatience and frustration was swelling in him, hampering his breathing. He wanted to kill Dickie. It was not the first time he had thought of it. Before, once or twice or three times, it had been an impulse caused by anger or disappointment, an impulse that vanished immediately and left him with a feeling of shame. Now he thought about it for an entire minute, two minutes, because he was leaving Dickie anyway, and what was there to be ashamed of anymore?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley