You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

...he felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

You're looking for a reason, " she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.