faith comes and goes

"faith comes and goes...if it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will"

- flannery o'connor

the same day

"we are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day"

- l.m. montgomery

let you go

"when you leave,

weary of me,

without a word i shall gently let you go"

- kim sowol

a beginning

"...and to make an end is to make a beginning"

 -t.s. eliot

a gift

"someone i loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

it took me years to understand that this too,

was a gift"

- mary oliver

my whole world

"had i not created my whole world, i would certainly have died in other people's"

- anais nin

on the grass

"i want to lie down on the grass, rest on something living and see if i can hear the dead underneath"

- elizabeth scott