Adam’s Reviews > The Diary of a Country Priest > Status Update

In regards to the possibility that a character might try and kill herself the priest says “Void fascinates those who daren’t look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.”

I just liked how this sounded, so somber and wise, and seems at least plausibly true. P157

“And yet I feel that such distress, distress that has forgotten even its name, that has ceased to reason or to hope, that lays its tortured head at random, will awaken one day in the shoulder of Jesus Christ.” P53

“It is hard to be alone, and harder still to share your solitude with indifferent or ungrateful people.” P35