You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast