
How Lucky: A Novel

through the game, Mary pulled out a five-dollar bill and, with great motherly solicitude, told me to go buy myself a hot dog and beer and to please get her a diet Coke. It was one of those moments to die for. After rent, five dollars is actually a significant percentage of her monthly budget. It was the unmatchable gift that only the poor are capab
... See moreGary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Author Cormac McCarthy on the benefits of bad luck:
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
Source: No Country for Old Men
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
Source: No Country for Old Men
