Sinner Quotes

“Belief is this. Praying when you don't feel like it, when you don't know who or what is listening; it's doing the actions with the trust that something about it matters. That something about it makes you more human, a better human, a human able to love and trust and hope in a world where those things are hard.
That is belief. That is the point of prayer. Not logging a wish list inside a cosmic ledger, not bartering for transactional services. You do it for the change around you; to the point of it is...itself. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I want to build a tower around you, and then build a castle around that tower, and then dig a moat around that castle, and then I want to guard you like a dragon. Burn anyone who tries to hurt you into ash and then scorch those ashes a second time.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I know how to make sin feel like heaven.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Sean, faith and belief are the practices of committing a life in the face of no answers. God is and always will be outside of human comprehension.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Reasons why I should tell Zenny I love her right now: 1. I love her. 2. She needs to know. 3. She likes the honest guy thing. 4. An old nun told me to. Reasons why I should wait to tell her: 1. She’s bent over a sink.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Well, I do feel like I should mention that I think virginity in general is an arbitrary construct designed by men as a system of control and fear. And it’s heteronormative. And limiting, because why do certain sexual acts preserve virginity and some destroy it? What if I fucked a dildo every night, but I hadn’t fucked a man? Why doesn’t anal sex count? And what if I was with someone and penetration wasn’t an option, for any number of biological or emotional or identity reasons—would that make our sex less somehow? I’d be a virgin forever?”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I can't crack her faith the way her love cracks me. I can't carve away her connection with God the same way she's carved a gap into my heart that she refuses to fill”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Biblical metaphors for God include a laboring woman, a breastfeeding mother, even a mother hen. And man and woman were both created in God’s image, were they not? Why use Him and not Her? In fact, why even say God instead of Goddess? Both Him and Her are not enough to contain the fullness of God, who is outside the construct of gender, who is so much more than the human mind can conceive.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“The most selfless people, the most driven people, they need permission to take care of themselves; they need someone who will put them first because they won't do it for themselves.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Some people think it’s a bad idea, trying to justify God’s goodness, because it distracts us from what’s important. It tangles us up in intellectual knots, when intellection isn’t the point. We have philosophy for that. Religion is for ritual, for practice. For moral action.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“It’s called theodicy. When people try to explain how God can still be good when bad things happen.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I'm still furious with God over what happened to Lizzy. But I realized being furious with Him is not the same thing as wanting Him out of my life.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I miss her like a physical pain. Missing her is a cancer and it's stealing my cells and breaking my bones. It's eating me alive.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“And I came to understand something while I was going through it. To be fully human is to be fully sexual, and while that doesn’t mean having sex or even sexual desire, it does mean being fully in your body. It means recognizing that there’s nothing any less holy about your body than there is about your soul, that as long as your body is treated with consent and respect and affection—and that you treat the bodies of others in the same way—there’s nothing inherently sinful about your flesh. About its desires or lack of desires. About what it does or does not do. You do not have the ability to tarnish her or yourself; that right isn’t given to any mortal person. She’ll be no more or less holy for sex; the same goes for the lack of it.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“God, the fucking irony of a sinner loving a nun. It’s agony. I’m dying. And as I’m both alight and aflame with loving her, these splashes of thought keep coming out of nowhere, like raindrops on a sunny day.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Who the fuck am I kidding? I can’t resist her; I can’t resist giving her anything she wants, ever.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I’m a sinner with a dimpled smile and perfect hair, and I know how to make sin feel like heaven.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Sometimes freedom is worth the discomfort.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“I can't explain it because I don't understand it. I don't understand myself, even. I only understand that I love her.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Good. You're mine to treasure, sweetheart, and I want to savor each and every part of you as you flower open.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Yes, I like it; I'm starving for it, starving like a mortal who's tasted fairy fruit and now can never eat anything else again.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“A belief tested by doubt is the strongest belief.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“Yes," I say helplessly. "Yes, I love her.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“And it's a stinging thing to note that even as I try my hardest [...] I can't crack her faith the way her love cracks me.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“She tilts her head and very deliberately pronounces, “Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck—”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“You…love me?” She says it like I just confessed to fucking microwaved melons in my spare time; her words are filled with horror and
near-revulsion.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“a TMNT bond is a bond for life”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“He was saying, ‘I commit so that I may understand.’ Or ‘I engage with this because it is the kind of thing that can only be understood by engaging with it.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“life isn’t measured in days. It’s measured in moments. When you decide with her what happens next, consider what moments you want to create for her now.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner

“That doesn’t change reality, but I’m willing to navigate it with you.”
― Sierra Simone, Sinner