Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”
“A conversation he’s been waiting for. Someone to come along and make his tragedies seem less tragic. It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.”
― Verity
― Verity
“I think atheists are the most religious people in the world. They say they want to do away with God, make a more rational world with science. But that’s only another way of saying they want to build a better God—one based on repeatable tests—an inescapable God named Reality. It’s the same unseemly monotheistic impulse to tighten the net that’s driven the wheel of murder for the last two thousand or so years. Deviate from the Trinity and you’re a heretic and you get burned at the stake. But fail to bow and scrape before Reality and, oh shit, you’re a lunatic.”
― Windfall
― Windfall
“They say blood is thicker than water. I say to hell with that. If blood mistreats you, better water. And if friends prove false, no matter, find better or be alone and be your own best friend.”
― Unmarriageable
― Unmarriageable
“They say curiosity killed the cat, but that was only the tenth time. During his other nine lives, the cat relished in the boons of his curiosity.”
― The Year of the Introvert: A Journal of Daily Inspiration for the Inwardly Inclined
― The Year of the Introvert: A Journal of Daily Inspiration for the Inwardly Inclined
“But this hard work, let me tell you. He been there so long, he don’t want to budge. He threaten lightening, floods and earthquakes. Us fight. I hardly pray at all. Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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