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“My first prayer was into a purple plastic toy megaphone. I even went into the closet to do it in case God was shy like me.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“Surely in this vale of tears we call life, the ill, the halt, and the lame find it curious that some people with constitutions like bull calves sometimes consider their good health and strength a curse rather than a blessing. It can be, though. In fistfights, even beaten senseless, we don't fall down nearly soon enough; the joys of drug abuse don't seem to take their proper toll; and, sometimes, when we try to drink ourselves to death, we fail miserably. Miserably.”
― James Crumley, Dancing Bear

“If we fear people who can shadow us, we will stay with those who do not give off any light.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Hey, I get you, man,” assured Officer Villalobos. “And what you feel is totally valid—”

“—for Christ’s sake, can you stop saying what you think you should say?” said Gonzales.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost