God, I Have Read Job, And I Dont Understand It, But If This Is A Test Of Faith, You Now Realize My Faith

“God, I have read Job, and I don’t understand it, but if this is a test of faith, you now realize my faith is fairly weak, and probably leaving the spicy mustard off the pastrami sandwich would have also tested it? You didn’t have to go nuclear on me, you know...”

—Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air

Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods

gentle earth // retroluvv // andrea gibson, I sing the body electric; especially when my power is out

“‘Still, we live and learn, that’s what I always say.’ [Didactylos] turned to face the soldier. ‘Kicking and screaming.’”

-Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

“They weren’t that important. They were merely at the top. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it’s still possible to get things done.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods