“I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those...I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. This city can be hard. When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to His children. "You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves."
"It's only been in those times of calling out to God, praising Him, pleading with Him, prayer, and worship that I have been able to breathe a little. But I'm finding that breathing in Him, even just a little, is enough to get me through each day."
[The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free.]
