"catholics are no strangers to darkness and violence. we fill our churches with it and worship it every day."

g r o c e r i e s .

"reality had become a slippery thing; i wasn't certain on what part of my life i was an active part of, and what was a result of the machinations around me. but that, to me at least, felt no different from how it had been on the outside."

“i understand now that the woods is not just trees, that it could never be reduced in that way; it's the subterranean, microscopic life, the aeriel life, all that reverberates with the splendor of a living cathedral. the light that filters through the leaves forms translucent columns, a radiant sea expanding. i can feel the aura, the power that pulses through the air. i can touch it. i can caress the warm, gleaming particles of light with my fingertips. i'm part of this pagan temple, this ancestral sanctuary.”

"sometimes love isn’t enough. i think it is. i think it has to be. otherwise, it’s not really love. if the world can break it..."

"my greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. it is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. for only the pain of empathy will keep us human. there’s no version of god that can help us if we ever lose that."

“don't let them paint their posters with your blood.”

“conservatism and passive acceptance... they can't think for themselves. anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. makes me want to puke.”