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41 " Our uniform policy has different guidelines addressed to “young men” vs. “young women.” As Deuteronomy 22:5 says, “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD.” DID YOU KNOW? More things that are abominations, according to Deuteronomy: —Not abandoning your wife after she’s been raped —Sacrificing a defective sheep to the LORD —Rock badgers "
― Katie Henry , Heretics Anonymous
42 " That girl’s visible collarbone is distracting me from calculus.” —No Person Ever "
43 " When you hurt people,” he says, “even if you didn’t mean to, you don’t get to choose where they go from there. When you hurt someone, it stops being about you, or what you want. "
44 " If I didn't know he'd devoted his life to indoctrinating impressionable children and never getting laid, he'd almost look normal. "
45 " New life plan: form a band called Cosmic Killjoy. "
46 " The end of the world is almost here," I say. And then, even though he won't get the Book of Revelation reference, "Surely, it comes quickly.""God," he says through gritted teeth. "I really want to make a sex joke right now. But you've ruined it. You've ruined it with the apocalypse. "
― Katie Henry , Let's Call It a Doomsday
47 " plaid is a harbinger of doom. "
48 " I’m definitely ten seconds away from getting my organs burned on a pyre for some vengeful pagan deity. "
49 " Cloaks are the best. Everybody used to wear cloaks, a long time ago, but now everyone thinks cloaks are only for wizards and vampires and Darth Vader, which ignores the entire history of cloak-wearing. "
50 " If monotheism's true, anyone who doesn't worship that one God is a sinner. If polytheism is true, then my God can be real. You don't have to worship them or think they're good, but they can still exist. I can believe the Brighid's real, and Athena's real, and so is Jesus. "
51 " I said those things because I'm Catholic. Sister Joseph Marie was diminishing the bravery of women who died for their God. "
52 " I wonder what the Catholic Church does to people who get turned on at chastity assemblies. They probably castrate them. "
53 " She waves the question off. "Don't worry about it."I hate it when people say that. I hate that they assume it's an option for me, I hate that."Of course I'm going to worry!" I shout at her, throwing my hands up. "I'm not capable of not worrying about it. It's built into my faulty toaster of my brain, of course I'm going to worry. "
54 " The only thing more dangerous than someone who doesn’t care about the rules is someone who does—and wants to break them anyway. "
55 " Some people are cut out to follow a higher being, like God or the hosts of the Home Shopping Network, but there are other people, people like me, who find it harder to follow the whims of parents or teachers or two-thousand-year-old undead Jewish mystics with strong opinions on divorce. "
56 " ...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part. "
― Katie Henry , This Will Be Funny Someday
57 " Tell someone once that reading Latin might be more fun if you were high, and they act like you're running your own personal growhouse. "
58 " Lucy’s mouth tightens. Is she thinking about the parts she has to leave behind to be a good Catholic? The parts that her own faith doesn’t want or value? Lucy with all her brilliant ideas, Lucy with all her steel and softness, Lucy who will never be a priest. I wonder if she’d really shut herself off from everything she could feel, and do, and be, for something that will probably never happen. "
59 " I believe in God because I believe in what I feel. And when I'm in church, or praying, I feel loved. I feel safe. I feel like someone knows me. "
60 " Oh my God," She interrupts, sounding breathless through the grate, sounding like she's smiling. "You read my Bible. "