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from the vampire legend of Eastern Europe to the ‘hungry ghosts’ of China. The original Americans believed in shamans and spirits. The slaves of West Africa and the Caribbean, stripped of all they had, still carried with them their customs and beliefs. We are not only a melting pot of cultures, but also of spirits and superstitions. Yes?”
She even spoke of the fall of our banks and the subsequent collapse of our economy.” “Clearly, she couldn’t see everything,” the boy in the golf trousers said. “That will never happen.”
The hubris of the american people
‘There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,’
I see this quote from Will so much, I'm getting it tatted
“Welcome to New York,
It's Been waiting for you
“Everybody in New York’s from someplace else.”
Taylor?
Swell to meet ya, Evil.” “It’s Evie.” “Not anymore,”
Hmm
Mr. Hobbes.” He tipped his hat. “But my friends call me John.”
“Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it.
“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”
“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.”
“The time is now. They are coming,” Isaiah said, drifting back into dreams, his last word barely a whisper: “Diviners.”
“They don’t look much like killers,” Evie remarked. “They never do,”
Inside, white robes and hoods hung from hooks like the hollowed skins of ghosts.
“It gave rise to new religions such as the Church of Latter-Day Saints, the Church of Christ, and the Seventh-Day Adventists,
Cults. I say that as an ex-Mormon
It was Solomon’s Comet coming through the northern hemisphere.” Evie suddenly remembered the two girls handing her the flyer on the street. “The same Solomon’s Comet…” “On its way to us now
“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”
only ghosts that frightened Evie were the very real ghosts inside her.
But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? “Oh, Evie, you’re too much,” people said, and it wasn’t complimentary. Yes, she was too much. She felt like too much inside all the time. So why wasn’t she ever enough? Evie
‘God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?’ ”
American Repulican motto 2023
“Mothers love all their children equally.” “No, they don’t. That’s just what we all agree to say.”
PREACH. This goes for fathers too
“There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.”
“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,”
“Why is it you have such trouble believing in God?” “What sort of god would let this world happen?”
There’s nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he’s right,”
“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear,”
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”
Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.
