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“I write this book not as a testimony to vanity, but rather as a humble hope to inspire or move others to greater kindness, sensitivity, and commitment to our world and to the precious people we call our family and our extended brothers and sisters in this life.”
― John J. Bosco Jr., A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions

“One day I was in my cozy basement reading when she came over. She always smelled great, and when I asked her what it was, she volunteered that it was Heaven Scent, a wildly popular perfume for young girls at that time. I so loved that smell and to be honest, I would have fallen in love with any woman who wore that scent.”
― John J. Bosco Jr., A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions

“As she stepped out of the elevator, I looked at her until the doors closed around me. Heaven Scent lingered in the elevator car, and I rode the elevator up and down until the magical scent had dissipated into the air, as would my dreams and desires.”
― John J. Bosco Jr., A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions

“Ironically, I would lose my faith by taking a class in theology in a Catholic college that was also a required academic course. So, I started reading theologians and scholars of Bible history. I found, to my amazement, confirmation of my suspicions that the entire Bible was nothing more than mythology, no less fake than the Greek and Roman gods.”
― John J. Bosco Jr., A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions

“The Bible takes its place among the great mythologies of the ancients with their great creation stories, resurrections, and battles for the hearts and minds of the puny humans who they created. Their subjects are ordered not to think for themselves or question God under penalties of eternal suffering and punishment in hell.”
― John J. Bosco Jr., A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions