Little Faith Quotes

“Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“He cared not for politics; he’d lived long enough to watch every politician he once admired become an abject disappointment, if not a liar.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you.... It's true. You'll see someday. You'll see.
The heaviest thing in the world is the coffin that carries the weight of a little child, for no adult who has ever borne that burden will ever forget it. To bury a child is a tragedy many parents never overcome.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“I hate this Christmas song,” Lyle said at last, turning off the radio. “You don’t like John Lennon?” Peg asked, trying to stifle a small laugh. “It’s just that, only John Lennon could write a Christmas song that made you feel like a fool for ever liking Christmas at all. Paul McCartney would never do that. Or George or Ringo, for that matter.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“no one, in his experience, behaved very rationally once the thermometer tipped beyond ninety degrees.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“are days in the American middle west when nothing seems more natural than driving long distances if only to leave your hometown for a handful of hours; a trip that would be unfathomable to most of the world’s population might be a recreational way to spend a Sunday: photographing autumnal leaves, tracing the path of the Mississippi or St. Croix rivers, the coastlines of Lake Superior or Lake Michigan (inland oceans, really), hiking a path up to some small waterfall, or perhaps a long foray for something as simple as a slice of pie. When there is nothing to do—drive.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you," he said.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“How can it all be random, chance, a beautiful cosmic accident? How?”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“Lyle, part of being a Christian - hell, part of being a good person - is caring about everyone, all human life. And I love you, friend, I do. But there are times when I think you feel that a person fails at religion if they're not-always-doing-the-perfect-thing-every-damn-time.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

“I never understood organized religion," Otis said at length. "Be a good person. Don't hurt other folks. Don't cheat. Don't be greedy. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't need a goddamn guidebook to stay on the straight and narrow. Or a set of stones engraved by lightening. Or some heavenly reward. I don't need a particular day of the week set aside. All of our days are important, every last one. You get older, that comes into tighter and tighter focus.”
― Nickolas Butler, Little Faith