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“…the cycle of life is here; it is inescapable; it is to be embraced, cherished, appreciated. One departs and leaves behind the gift of sustenance, of life. They make room for the next generation. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.”

“Jesus was always a metaphor: a lover, food, water we thirsted for. No wonder we wouldn’t know Him on the street.”

“Judith said Proverbs 31 was our blueprint for life, the model woman. … But she doesn’t have a name. She’s no one outside of what she does.”

“The most remarkable thing about Western civilization is its ability to absorb any object or idea, alter it, sanitize it, rebrand it, and market it. Even ideas that are a threat can be co-opted and put to work.”

“The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.”

“‘You’re afraid of everything sacred,’ he’d said in the car on the way home.

‘How is it sacred if you’re not afraid of it?’”