Bobbieschowalter

“Not like I was. I’ve come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We’re just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“Addie and Louis sat down in front. She had arranged the funeral and told the minister about Ruth. He hadn't known her at all. She had stopped going to any church because of her feeling about orthodoxy and the childish ways in which churches talked and thought about God.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night