Will

“As Ellena Mayer talked about how everyone had mistreated her and discriminated against her for being a woman and a talented genetic designer, I classed her as the type of woman who doesn’t understand everyone who is unusually brilliant is “discriminated against” for the simple fact of being different from the common herd, and therefore both resented, and suspicious.”
― Sarah A. Hoyt, No Man's Land: Volume 3

“I constantly warn my assistants to guard against worship environments in which people can hear the voices of other audience members. That is why one of the most wonderful achievements of our time is the combination of sophisticated instrumentation and voice amplification. We have elevated accompaniment to an art form, added attractive worship teams, and created a worship atmosphere in which no one need hear her own voice or that of her neighbor. The entire audience—for now it has become an audience, not a congregation—can now lip synch their praise, with confidence that our Enemy will hear, and approve of the worship being offered onstage.”
― T.G. Brown, The Wormwood Archive

“There were cuttings about flying saucers, about secret weapons, about truth drugs used by Russians, and claims for fantastic drugs discovered by American doctors. All the witchcraft, so Neele thought, of our twentieth century.”
― Agatha Christie, A Pocket Full of Rye

“When I was single I learned over dinner, careful not to drip tomato sauce upon discussions about the sprinkling of blood on the Temple altar.”
― Ilana Kurshan, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir