Emily

“I had spent an entire life praying for a miracle, and none had come. And now I looked at the stuffy chapel of my ancestors and saw vanity and greed, heard the call to prayer and thought of power, smelled incense and wondered at the waste of it all.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

“Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.

At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.

We must try to see one another in this way.

As suffering, limited beings --

Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.”
― George Miller

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
― Tolkein