Revival

by Stephen King

Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so—pardon the pun—so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.”

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain’t one.”

That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.

Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there’s still time.

There is hope, therefore I live.