Markita Buganski

“Look, Father, I don't think you're being straight with me. I want to join your Church and I'm going to join your Church, but you're holding too much back. I've had a long talk with a Catholic-a very pious, well-educated one, and I've learned a thing or two. For instance, that you have to sleep with your feet pointing East because that's the direction of heaven, and if you die in the night you can walk there. Now I'll sleep with my feet pointing any way that suits Julia, but d'you expect a grown man to believe about walking to heaven? And what about the Pope who made one of his horses a Cardinal? And what about the box you keep in the church porch, and if you put in a pound note with someone's name on it, they get sent to hell. I don't say there mayn't be a good reason for all this, but you ought to tell me about it and not let me find out for myself.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“I had plans, Karolina, and I chose power over love.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“It is this lower mind that – like some megalomaniac, myopic, middle-aged, meddling, middle manager – believes he is obliged to block everyone’s progress and ideas in order to prove his own power and worth.”
― Gary Edward Gedall, The Zen Approach to Modern Living Vol 1: Fundamentals, Family & Friends