Reflections from Reality

“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

“the saddest part of the story is, that I pray for you. every time I bend these sinful knees before my lord. I pray for you, after the forgiveness and the gratitude, after the regret and the tears, when it is time to ask, I pray for you. I pray for that mouth of yours that sprouts bitter greens instead of lavender, those soft cheeks that are riverbeds for tears that come with years of resentment, those hands that feel like they belong to someone else, I pray for you. and if I was a woman Who played her luck, a woman with fast hands, a woman who gambled, I’d bet everything I own that you have never even prayed for me once.”