Claire

“perfidious.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every time you listen with great attentiveness to the voice that calls you the Beloved, you will discover within yourself a desire to hear that voice longer and more deeply. It is like discovering a well in the desert. Once you have touched wet ground, you want to dig deeper.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

“No, Professor, it aint nothin like that. You dont have to be virtuous. You just has to be quiet. I cant speak for the Lord but the experience I've had leads me to believe that he'll speak to anybody that'll listen. You damn sure aint got to be virtuous.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited

“Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited