“ The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression. Julianna Baggott
“ Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. Julianna Baggott
“ Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels… Julianna Baggott
“ I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal… Julianna Baggott
“ I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage… Julianna Baggott
“ Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. Julianna Baggott
“ 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. Julianna Baggott
“ And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a… Julianna Baggott
“ Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing. Julianna Baggott
“ Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should. Julianna Baggott
“ Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive. Julianna Baggott
“ Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand? Julianna Baggott
“ But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing. Julianna Baggott
“ But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose. Julianna Baggott
“ Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss. Julianna Baggott
