“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant sitting quietly in you chair while your best friend is helicoptered off for emergency eye surgery. It meant letting people say whatever they wanted to you.”
“Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.”