You have the faith and commitment of someone much older, but you still think so categorically, so broadly. In unqualified absolutes.”


“But maybe you should question the people who taught you this version of God. Because it's not doing you any favors.”
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Love cannot be won or lost; a relationship doesn't have a scoring system. We are partners, paired against the world. We cannot succeed if we are at odds with each other.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
― Project Hail Mary
"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
― Project Hail Mary

“Even Einstein wasn’t an atheist,” he says. “He talked about God all the time. Now, he didn’t believe in a god that was concerned with human behavior, which is the church’s obsession and the reason it uses guilt and shame to enforce Christianity.”
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
― The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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