Jillian Duquette

“He?” asked Victor incredulously. He wasn’t in the mood for God. Not this morning. “According to your thesis,” he said, “an influx of adrenaline and a desire to survive gave you that talent. Not God. This isn’t divinity, Eli. It’s science and chance.”
“Maybe to a point, but when I climbed into that water, I put myself in His hands—”
“No,” snapped Victor. “You put yourself in mine.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“I did not live on the earth but in it, in communion with all that gave me life.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“Much of the deep depression that surrounds us in life has to do with this one thing — that we can’t even see the smallest plainest objects.”
― Jesse Ball, The Lesson

“it’s not really about that stuff. It’s people who have fallen out of love with life trying to get back to how they used to feel, you know?”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters