41 quotes found
“Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice.”
“Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal.”
“You have to surrender yourself to the experience.”
“The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word.”
“You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.”
“Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.”
“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Soc...”
“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange thingselves and fairiesand now we don't. Now we see them, right?”
“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand th...”
“If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.”
“If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.”
“They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.”
“Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that...”
“Jasmine had endured enough parochial schooling before middle school to have a residual attachment to the beautiful parts of believing, the certainty of knowing one is loved by something beyond comp...”
“The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.”
“She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people's relationships simply by existing, but she will always be surm...”
“Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.”
“enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore whi...”
“I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to eliminate all rational excuses before blaming intergalactic monkeys from the fo...”
“Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.”
“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”
“We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.”
“She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.”
“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.”
