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1 " It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all. "
― Katherine Min , Secondhand World
2 " Fix me," I commanded him. " This thing, what I've done- there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it." Noah's expression broke my heart as he brushed my hair from my face and skimmed the line of my neck. " I can't." " Why not?" I asked, my voice threatening to crack.Noah lifted both his hands to my face, and held it. " Because," he said, " you aren't broken. "
3 " She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain. "
― Andrew Davidson , The Gargoyle
4 " If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people. "
― Sam Harris
