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“Knowledge often spoils devotion.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun

“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Be happy, Feyre.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Did humans hug in their caves? [...] Who was the first person to seek comfort in another? Did it work? And if not, who was brave enough to try again?”
― Claudia Lux, Sign Here

“All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Lost Story

“It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun

“To me it is absolutely indifferent whether a piece of work is carried out by a small woman in Bulgaria or by a tall man in America, as long as it is done well. And this is what we have to do: do things so well that no one would dare to say, “this is good work for a woman,” but that everyone will say, “this is good work.”
― Dava Sobel, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

“I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun