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21 " She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day’s wave of vanity had passed. "
― Tim Farrington , The Monk Downstairs
22 " There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway. "
23 " For the rest of the afternoon, Rebecca wandered around the house tidying up halfheartedly, feeling bereft and disoriented, trying to balance impassive mass of all the ordinary things of her life with her sense that everything had changed. Inevitably, the weightless moments with Mike began to seem unreal. All her furniture said that love was a bubble and a fluke. "
24 " God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world. "
25 " Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. REINHOLD NIEBUHR "
― Tim Farrington , Lizzie's War
26 " All she really wanted was to protect her daughter's joy in unicorns. It was like loving a soap bubble, she knew, treasuring that innocence. Yet nothing else in her life right now moved her in the least. She often thought that must be a little pathetic; surely she should have found a larger cause by now. But the larger causes of her youth had bled away. Her sense of the Big Picture had fractured and decayed. She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed. "
27 " I’ve got a wonderful, pathetic little life that is precious to me. "
28 " Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side…. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. —RUMI "
― Tim Farrington , A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul
29 " Maybe this was why monks embraced such fathomless silence: they’d glimpsed how deep grief really was and understood that to grieve properly they had to sink from sight. They’d discovered the love that lived at the bottom of grief, the love you couldn’t bring to the surface because the daylight and the bright air and the business of everyday life twisted it into something unrecognizable, something that inevitably seemed crude. She had never allowed herself to grieve wholly before, she realized now. Not "
30 " Real prayer is a disappearance, a surrender to the embrace of deepening mystery, in darkness. In that darkness, finally, God alone is. And God is infinite surprise. "
31 " Death came, in such a place, or it didn’t. That was in God’s hands. "
32 " The greater part of experience is acquired in sink-or-swim situations. If we were smart, we would never grow wise. "
― Tim Farrington , Blues for Hannah