I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.