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I’m in Oz, he thought. And I forgot my magic slippers.
you are looking at the long-lost symbol of the world’s oldest and most powerful satanic cult.”
Remembrance was a Buddhist philosopher’s trick. Rather than asking her mind to search for a solution to a potentially impossible challenge, Vittoria asked her mind simply to remember
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags . . . those are things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science . . . computers, vaccines, space stations . . . even the divine miracle
His head felt like an engine revving on bad fuel.
They considered English a polluted, free-thinkers’ language for profane men like Chaucer and Shakespeare.”
When you’re a black woman, her mother said, ain’t no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let ’em wonder what secret’s making you laugh.
