

“What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.”
― Searching for God Knows What
― Searching for God Knows What

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”
― Time for a Tiger
― Time for a Tiger

“Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood

“She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park

“I’m not going to say the war was a good thing. I’m not that much of a sick fuck, but you’ve got to admit that it did bring people together.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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