Mary

“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“But the past isn’t the future. It has to pass through the present first, and this present… it’s a magical thing.”
― Noret Flood, The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound 10

“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers