Riley Matthews Quotes

boyhoods spent outdoors, roaming the suburbs, the beach, the bush, from morning until their mothers called them in for tea. It was a way of life lost now—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had seen to that. The butt end of the information revolution: fatbergs larded with Zucker-tucker.

Nietzsche sums it up: it is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation.

To rest is a special kind of power […] It seems like anytime God is talking about salvation in the Bible, he makes a point to name rest. ‘I’ll refresh tired bodies’ (Jeremiah 31:25, MSG). ‘Find rest for your souls’ (Matthew 11:29). And, in Psalm 23:2, we have ‘He makes me lie down.’ What a peculiar answer to the valley of the shadow of death.

Riley? Come on, hon. You’re still alive. I’m still alive. Don’t give up on me, please.