Jim

“I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality' than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is fixed.”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

“Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives.”
― Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

“Never give up a possible advantage for a moment of ego gratification,”
― Dan Willis, Curse of the Phoenix