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“I had a pious thought but I won’t write it down”

Good Friday’s entry is the funniest passage I’ve ever read

NARRATED BY KEVIN R FREE?!?! Actually, I’m sure that’s how I came across this book, scrolling through his titles on Libby. But by the time my hold arrived I’d forgotten, and it’s such a delight to hear his narration

‘Sophia picked some flowers and held them in her hand until they got warm and unpleasant; then she put them down on her grandmother and asked how God could keep track of all the people who prayed at the same time.
"He's very, very smart," Grandmother mumbled sleepily under her hat.
"Answer really," Sophia said. "How does He have time?"
"He has secretaries...” ‘

I switched to the audiobook and I don’t know why but it clicked almost immediately in a way that it hadn’t for me when I’d been reading the physical book (unusual for me because I almost always read poetry rather than listen to it)

“Whoever makes it their business to stick gnomes in the crook of a tree, I love you, I realized today”

“Everywhere we go, everything has changed. But the ducks, they’re just the same”. Lol, Hodge has read her Sayers—“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks…” (Gaudy Night).

“Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours he could never forget.”
Houghhhh oughhh ow ow ow

“Matt saw that it was miraculous. Without him I would not have seen that. I would never have realized that the lives which played themselves out in front of us every day were wonderful, in the original sense of the word. I would have observed, but I would not have wondered.”

“It was the Eleventh Commandment, carved on its very own tablet of stone and presented specifically to those of Presbyterian persuasion: Thou Shalt Not Emote.”

“The brunchification of death, Rashida? Really?”

“The stories in this collection owe a particular debt to the short stories and novels of Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones, Robert Westall, Ursula K Le Guin, and to the anthologies of Helen Hoke”
Let’s goooo

I would die for Jasper

Josh Ritter mentioned 🕺💃😤💪💯‼️

“Her love of the natural world allowed no separation between observed fact and the ethical responsibility to make the understanding part of public dialogue. Advocacy was inseparable from knowledge and understanding. Describing life as a biologist and compelling us to action as a polemicist was not intellectually debatable. It was an inherent moral obligation for those who loved the natural world.”

“I retain professional objectivity, but also deduce that given the necessity, I would die for her”

Let’s GOOOOO

“He had seen death, he had tasted death, and no threat had power over him”

“Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the light of sunrise and sunset to buy safety for yourself, safety forever?” Damn Ursula!! Damn!!!

“Do you know how to read?”

“No. It is one of the black arts.”

He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

Perhaps the mad impulse to praise with horns is endemic to all Christianity.

“…my father laughs, long and loud enough to reveal the gap on one side of his mouth where a molar was removed a while back. When I see that black space I feel the same tenderness that wells up when I look at pictures of the Sacred Heart, that tenderness just where the thorn touches the meat—an empathy for his body I could not possibly feel for his mind.”

Blessed interlibrary loan!

Wednesday 31st October 1979 😭

This is the most terminally online thing to admit but listening to the audiobook scratches the itch that I’ve had since catching up on Maintenance Phase’s backlog. 16 hour podcast let’s gooooo

“Ah. You see how this begins another tale? How one gives rise to another, and then others?

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN SHOUTOUT!!?!?!!

Steep dive into existential terror! 😆

really neatly puts into words the frustration of conservation works. it is so tailored to my interests (field biologist! wolf reintroduction! moody atmosphere!) and i am having the time of my life