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“Worship is not good without action. With action, it’s only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.”

“People are setting fires because they’re frustrated, angry, and hopeless. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”

“Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.”

“I’m still learning how dogged people can be in their denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.”

“She held herself rigid, rejecting. ‘You don’t know that! You can’t read the future. No one can.’
‘You can,’ I said, ‘if you want to. It’s scary, but once you get past the fear, it’s easy.’”

“Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?”

“She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead.”

“Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you’ll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?”

“‘The stars are free.’ She shrugs. ‘I’d rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.’”