Georg Brandes

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.