As I look back over our lives — my father's, my mother's, my own — I can see plainly that this is a story of desire: desire sometimes gone awry, sometimes stifled and repressed, sometimes fulfilled, sometimes set free. It's no easy business, learning to befriend our desires, to get past our lesser appetites in order to find what we really long for. It's hard to set a course and sail straight in the face of distraction, frustration, and defeat; in the face of high winds, heavy storms, and rough seas.
— Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Holy Hunger