#The Sparrow

[derangedrhythms]

Would you like to know precisely how dark the night of the soul can get?

Mary Doria Russell, from 'The Sparrow'

#mary doria russell #the sparrow #prose #u

[emiliosandozsequence]

sam winchester + suicidal ideation

supernatural (2005-2020) cr. eric kripke / the sparrow, mary doria russell

↳ inspired by a conversation with @steppesliver

#supernatural #spn #spnedit #sam winchester #samwinchesteredit #the sparrow #mary doria russell #jared padalecki #mine #mww #spnww #tsww #comparative #comparatives #web weave #web weaves #web weaving #web weavings

[steppesliver]

true detective: 1x02 'seeing things' / children of god by mary doria russell

#every 2 weeks it seems that i need to do some rust sophia posting or i die its hilarious atp #true detective #rust cohle #the sparrow #mary doria russell #mine

[degenderates]

tumblr user starpeace / the sparrow by mary doria russell / matthew 26

#from my drafts #the sparrow #comparatives #web weaving #religious trauma #mary doria russell #words

[seebestattung]

[coughing up blood] h,ey guys this book is really good

#words #the sparrow #mary doria russell

[queenlucythevaliant]

My second proper bind: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

#i am so incredibly satisfied with how this turned out #it makes me so happy #also I had a handful of extra pages in the last signature that were gonna be blank #so that's what the 'notes on theodicy' section is about #i added like eight pages worth of fave writing on the topic there at the end #the sparrow #pontifications and creations #adventures in bookbinding

[aldieb]

“I had a dream last night,” he said quietly. “I was on a road and there was no one with me. And in the dream I said, ‘I don’t understand but I can learn if you will teach me.’ Do you suppose anyone was listening?” —The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

my first embroidery project, made for @boudiccabeautiful! ID in alt text.

#my art #the sparrow #everyone who didn't tell me the music staff accidentally had 6 lines when i posted just the drawing is a fake friend (jk)

[aboutbirds]

Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally; a wisp of feathers flattened to the pavement, wings spread symmetrically as if in flight, the head gone, the black escutcheon of the breast undecipherable, an effigy of a sparrow, a dried wafer only, left to say and it says it without offense, beautifully; This was I, a sparrow. I did my best; farewell.

William Carlos Williams, excerpt of "The Sparrow," from Selected Poems

#william carlos williams #the sparrow #selected poems #out of my collection

[dogmotifz]

anyone else want to kill themselves

#this fucking book. #the sparrow

[louisegluckpdf]

i'm going to gnaw my own arm off the aeschylus passage giuliani has emilio read ("in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God") is the passage anne carson translates as "and the grace of the gods / (i'm pretty sure) / is a grace that comes by violence."

#i read that passage and thought nay......it couldn't be..... #and then consulted my copy of the oresteia and would you believe. it is. going ripping all my hair out mode #the sparrow

[thesunkeptrising]

"Maybe that's what it meant to find God: to see what you have been given, to know divine generosity, to appreciate the large things and the small..."

- Mary Doria Russell

#mary doria russell #the sparrow #words #faith

[derangedrhythms]

God will break your heart.

Mary Doria Russell, from 'The Sparrow'

#mary doria russell #the sparrow #prose #the holiness and horror of divine things

[emiliosandozsequence]

sam winchester + loss of autonomy through manipulation

supernatural (2005-2020) cr. eric kripke / the sparrow, mary doria russell

#supernatural #spn #spnedit #supernaturaledit #sam winchester #samwinchesteredit #the sparrow #the sparrow1996 #thesparrowedit #mary doria russell #mine #mww #spnww #tsww #robyn #comparative #comparatives #web weave #web weaves #web weaving #web weavings

[nayswriting]

She learned what everyone learns in war. Living through it is all that matters.

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

#The Sparrow #Mary Doria Russell #novel #writing #quote #science fiction #scifi #sci-fi #religion #inspo #Nay talks #this book was so good #it Fucked Me Up.

[steppesliver]

children of god by mary doria russell

#guiliani my god we really are on it right now huh... #i quite like the new cast protags btw ngl..i thought i'd miss more the characters from prev book but i sincerely dont really care #since sofia and emilio are alive sooo.... #the sparrow #mary doria russel #children of god #🕯️

[jessaerys]

just an unfriendly reminder that ummmmm girls did you know that so you have come as a tourist perhaps to see how the whore sleeps as you see the whore sleeps badly the choice of words distrubs you it did me at first but i have reconsidered what is a whore but someone whose body is ruined for the pleasure of others i am god's whore, and ruined

#the sparrow