"What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists."

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Julianna Baggott

#Mean Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“Are you afraid, Tessa?”
“No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.”
“Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.”
“Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.”
“I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.”
“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.”
“The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.”
“A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.”

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