Evangellyfish Quotes

“...he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel

“This is as good a place as any to insist that all the characters in Evangellyfish are fictional, and I made them all up out of my own head. Any resemblance to any real people, living or dead, is their own darn fault. If they quit acting like that, the resemblance would cease immediately and we wouldn’t have to worry about it.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish

“Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?” “Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?” Bradford guessed.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish

“They weren’t really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish

“Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it. G.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish

“His pastoral antennae were buzzing and sparking, and it seemed to him that he was inevitably going to be dragged into this swamp of charges and countercharges. And if so, he preferred going in headfirst and not grabbed at the heels by the swamp monster of circumstances in order to be dragged helplessly into these stagnant ponds of punk water. He was just doing his duty, but his duty seemed a lot bigger than normal.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel

“Uncertainty was part of the appeal. That was just one problem with ministering to the youth of today‌—‌riding the wave of cool and contemporary youth ministry was like surfing the big ones, and with one false move, there you were with sand in your trunks.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel

“She wasn’t really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel

“Had he ever told Cindi about that junior high crush? Probably. What did it matter? There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That’s what junior high is for.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel

“If John had been paying close attention to Lester’s face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.”
― Douglas Wilson, Evangellyfish: A Novel