Anthony W.

“It is the hardest question. And I kind of think part of the reason it's so hard is because we don't know if we did figure out what we needed and asked for it, how we would manage if we didn't get what we asked for.”
― Suzanne Stabile

“Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion. But the father of the prodigal son is not concerned about himself. His long-suffering life has emptied him of his desires to keep in control of things. Can I give without wanting anything in return, love without putting any conditions on my love?”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“I knelt down. The dirt felt cool as it ran through my fingers. Nothing hits the nose quite like freshly tilled topsoil, carrying the scent of life and death. The ground around here smells rotten after a rain, gray buckshot petrichor, grabbing tires and axles and feet. I’ve lost shoes in this mud. Delta folks call it gumbo and it feels hungry, aggressive even, as if it actively wants to pull more living things down into its stinking maw.”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

“A cult is built on believing the absurd if the absurd justifies the cult.”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi