“ Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you. ”
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
~ Amy Waldman
Sorrow can be a bully.
Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
