Deep Stuff Quotes

“But you're acting like that's the end of the story, that the brokenness is the final answer. When you know very well that it's not. You've always said that at the end of the story the world will be healed, fixed, all wrongs finally righted. And that what's broken is being redeemed, little by little, even now.”
― Noelle Adams, Married for Christmas

“She had waited so long for this. For this intimacy to be whole, complete, to unquestionably mean love.”
― Noelle Adams, Married for Christmas

“About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with the Best Man

“She saw it. Recognized it as kin. (...) Realized they really weren't that different after all.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with the Best Man

“In relations of mutual exploitation, outcomes are rarely guaranteed.”
― Eben Kirksey, Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power