The Opposite of Hallelujah Quotes

“I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out--whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“Best quote page 239: "The past doesn't disappear, but it doesn't have to define your future. That's up to you.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“It's a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it also serves as reminder that that the mind of God is unknowable, that things that seem contradictory to us only appear so because we have no context for them, or aren't seeing the full picture.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“But you can't prove God exists. And isn't that what all science is ultimately about? Proving theories about the universe?"

"Provability is not truth, Caro. Godel's incompleteness theorem tells us that, if we didn't already know it intuitively, which we do.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“I had a chronic beer-face condition; no matter what I was drinking, I ended up looking like I'd just eaten a live tarantula. It was very sophisticated.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires an extreme emotional and spiritual vulnerability. It's frighting,because we're trained not to expose the weakest parts of ourselves, the things that cause us pain and shame and suffering. It's those same things that often block our access to God-- basically, we stand in our own way.”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“I want you to remember this, when everything around you appears to be falling to pieces, when it all seems lost: the world belongs to those who stick around and tough it out”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah