#stone yard devotional

[derangedrhythms]

Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional

[bettygemma]

"Our Simone once took me to task over my ‘sneering’ about prayer. My notion of prayer was juvenile: forget this telephone line to God bullshit, she snapped, hot with impatience. It wasn’t even about God, she said, which I thought must surely be blasphemous. Praying was a way to interrupt your own habitual thinking, she told me. It’s admitting yourself into otherness, cracking open your prejudices. It’s not chitchat; it’s hard labour. She spoke as if all this were obvious. I longed to understand her. It feels always that I am on the edge of some comprehension here but never breaking through to the other side."

- Charlotte Wood, 'Stone Yard Devotional'

[dk-thrive]

If you don’t live the life you are born for, it makes you ill.

— Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel (Riverhead Books, February 11, 2025)

[reverie-quotes]

I know what that feels like, to have something you cherish ridiculed. It's a horrible reduction in your sense of self.

— Charlotte Woods, Stone Yard Devotional

[epistolaire-livre]

Stone Yard Devotional (2023), Charlotte Wood, p. 55

[fassina]

Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood

[dk-thrive]

The noise stops but the feeling doesn’t.

— Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel (Riverhead Books, February 11, 2025)

[dk-thrive]

The more you run from it, the more you run into it, he said.

— Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel (Riverhead Books, February 11, 2025)