79 quotes found
“Angels are just beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God.”
“You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in…”
“It’s about Nietzsche’s theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believe a far better myth than Santa. They let you think that you, as a kid, don’t owe the world a thing. T...”
“You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.”
“In an electroencephalogram… one of her seizures was almost identical to an orgasm... Nothing happened during a seizure that couldn’t happen outside one, except that Roselyn was not in control of it...”
“You can’t exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one… the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee wi...”
“She felt that “truthful” and “honest” were two very different concepts. She could truthfully say that she hadn’t eaten Roselyn’s Chinese leftovers, but that wasn’t honest because it omitted that El...”
“My life of sin among people I’m sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.”
“A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.”
“I don’t much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance.”
“The dark places will not be instinctively frightening, true, but isn’t it better that children fear boogeymen than pedophiles? Isn’t it better that libraries are filled to the brim with stories and...”
“I don’t think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I’d want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway.”
“He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus—those who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin to...”
“Even in concept, angels are unsettling. They’re like drones, totally mindlessly following the will of God. The only difference between the Heavenly angels and demons is that the demons opted to fol...”
“We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.”
“Is there a term for when you are only gay for the top half of someone?”“I think that makes you bisect-ual.”
“He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people...”
“They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.”
“She is an angel, how bad could it be?”“Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in.”
