Midnight Mass Quotes

“Is it weird to pray during sex? Maybe it is, but sometimes it happens. I’ve tried to accept that it’s who I am—a man who loves God, and who loves fucking, that I can be dirty and holy all in the same moment.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Life is a spiral.
As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“But a person is so much more than those big things. A person is a collection of small things, of tiny invisible moments, of thoughts too inconsequential to share, of feelings that are too petty not to hide. Of glorious epiphanies too perfect to taint by speaking them out loud. And the real tragedy is not just that we won’t ever get to know these things about Millie. It’s that we so rarely take the time to know them about each other.”

My throat tightened as I thought about Poppy.

“When you go home tonight, look at the people around you. And search for those secrets. Millie would want you to hold on to them, those fleeting insubstantial moments. That was one of her gifts: seeing people how they really are.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“The difference between envy and jealousy is subtle but distinct, once you know the flavors and contours of both.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Being unhappy or doubtful isn't a sin”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Nothing felt real, nothing felt intimate or close or true—it all
seemed like a terrible movie of my life that I was being forced to watch from hundreds of feet away.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Once, I’d made the mistake of not trusting. When I found Poppy kissing her ex-boyfriend, I’d assumed the worst and left the scene without even trying to talk to her. She’d done it as a purposeful attempt to drive us apart, unable to bear the guilt of being the catalyst for my schism from the clergy. If I had trusted her, if I had stayed, we could have had another year together. Instead, I’d run away, believing that she was unfaithful, and we’d spent a year miserably apart.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“I’m fine now,' I said honestly. 'You healed me.'

'With my magical vagina?' she asked skeptically.

'With your magical vagina,' I confirmed.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“But a person is so much more than those big things. A person is a collection of small things.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Father Bell was here instead. And church was in session.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“She was so beautiful to me that all I had to do was watch her, and life made sense again.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“But a person is so much more than those big things. A person is a collection of small things, of tiny invisible moments, of thoughts too inconsequential to share, of feelings that are too petty not to hide. Of glorious epiphanies too perfect to taint by speaking them out loud. And the real tragedy is not just that we won’t ever get to know these things about Millie. It’s that we so rarely take the time to know them about each other.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“But a person is so much more than those big things. A person is a collection of small things, of tiny invisible moments, of thoughts too inconsequential to share, of feelings that are too petty not to hide.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“It’s that we so rarely take the time to know them about each other.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Of glorious epiphanies too perfect to taint by speaking them out loud.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“A person is a collection of small things, of tiny invisible moments, of thoughts too inconsequential to share, of feelings that are too petty not to hide.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“when there's guilt, there's grace”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“It's all my fault"
Four little words. Four dangerous, gangrenous, little words. Four words that - if you let them take root - would rot you away from the inside, would eat your soul and set decay festering in your heart. (p. 164)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“My chest cracked open and my heart fell out. (p. 114)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“She wore an invisible armor that did far more to separate us than clothes ever could. (p. 109)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same thing - over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so. (p. 73)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“My guilt was my language, my sustenance, my pulse. (...) I was letting it bleed into parts of my life where it didn't belong. (p.26)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“I cultivate guilt the way a farmer cultivates land. (p. 21)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“She waited up for me, night after night, like a princess in a tower. And unlike the fairytale princes, I never rode to her rescue. (p. 6)”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Knows what, Poppy? What could he possibly know about you that I don’t?” Still holding her chin, I brought my mouth to her ear. “I know the things you think about when you’re alone. I know every single fantasy you have in that pretty head of yours, and I know”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Life is a spiral. As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“The thought surfaced out of nowhere, fractured and shifting like a reflection on the sea. But once it appeared, it couldn’t be unthought, no matter how fleeting or ephemeral it had been.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass

“Viața este o spirală. Cât trăim, avansăm. Dar, pe un drum de spirală, să te apropii de țintă înseamnă să treci, periodic, prin lucruri similare-emoții, probleme, defecte-iar și iar, așa cum o persoană care urcă pe o scară în spirală se îndreaptă cu fața spre nord la fiecare zece trepte.”
― Sierra Simone, Slujba de la miezul nopții

“Life is a spiral.
As long as we lived, we would keep moving forward. But on a spiral path, getting closer to your destination meant periodically passing the same things—emotions, issues, character flaws—over and over again, the way a person walking up a spiral staircase would continually find himself facing north every ten steps or so.”
― Sierra Simone, Midnight Mass