Any Bitter Thing Quotes

“because I know the difference between preaching and anesthesia.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“Outside of the books and lectures, he discovered prayer. Real prayer, not the romantic notions of his fervid boyhood___God is my father, God is my friend, God is my protector.
No. God is not this, God is not that. God is.
In his solitary hours at chapel, he came to understand that the opposite of God is not Satan. The opposite of God is not evil. The opposite of God is absence.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“It is possible that I have attached these images to the wrong day in my desire to remember something of my parents, if only the reverberation caused by news of their death. The human craving is for story, not truth. Memory, I believe, embraces its errors, until what is and what is remembered become one.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“Her mother was explaining, calmly and without apparent apology, that the vessel we'd been sailing twenty-one years ago had capsized and that she'd claimed the only seat on the lifeboat.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing

“These bruised people shored me up, and I wanted them near me, not because misery loved company but because the business of human striving felt common to us all. In this was the presence of God.”
― Monica Wood, Any Bitter Thing