I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.