“If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires. I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.” — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“The "new evangelical" wears skinny jeans and earrings made from recycled beer caps. After all, she is acquiring a taste for Blue Moon and… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Yes, faith is like being born again. But it is also not like being born again. Unlike the newborn infant, the new Christian has… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Take the word saved as it is used in the evangelical vernacular. It’s true, you are saved by grace, by love, by light … but it’s… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“I Love You." He whispers is over and over, whispers it into my skin until the words make me shiver and my broken soul… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“I am crying because the alcohol has stripped away everything that was holding me together.” — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“You have learned that it is impossible to divide things neatly, and that the second you begin to define something, you limit it. There… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“He laughed, and he made me laugh, and it was because his relationship to his faith was not a do-or-die mission but something life-giving… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“[His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted,… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires. I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“I was at the part of self-exploration where you have to be surrounded with miscellanea in all of its diversity in order to figure… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Your life AFTER Christ is not static or an end result. You are not suspended in grace above the fray of life. You are… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image