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61 " [...] just because a person says something is true doesn’t mean it is, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to keep you fromdoing something fun. "
― Katie Henry , Heretics Anonymous
62 " How do you change a church that doesn't listen to you? "
63 " Don't forget," he reminds us, "God invented sex. Like everything else on this earth, it's one of His creations."Yeah, well, then so is genocide. And mosquitoes. And tangled headphone cords. "
64 " You're a member, you're LDS.""What?" Theo says."LDS," I repeat."No, this is weed," Sam says. "
― Katie Henry , Let's Call It a Doomsday
65 " iI hate Truth or Dare. It's always either physically painful or emotionally scarring. "
66 " I hate Truth or Dare. It's always physically painful or emotionally scarring. "
67 " You didn't want an éclair?" I ask, meeting him in the middle.He wrinkles his nose. "I don't actually like chocolate."That's practically blasphemy for someone raised Mormon. Sugar is our only vice. "
68 " Quick question," Lucy says. "Did you actually have to throw up?"I shake my head.She nods. "Okay. Good."She yanks me forward by my shirt collar and I'm kissing Lucy, or really, she's kissing me, and the fluorescent bathroom lights dim and so does the party noise outside the door, because there is nothing, nothing else but her. "
69 " threatened to test out how flame-retardant the polyester fabric really was. "
70 " I think about all the famous Christians, all the kings and presidents and televangelists in thousand-dollar suits. Do they know this? Do they know this is in their holy book, that the mother of God proclaimed their downfall? "
71 " I was wrong. Lucy was right. There is a God, and he hates me. There is a Hell, and I am currently in it. "
72 " So you’ll have to deal with being mislabeled. "
73 " Sophia takes a couple hiccuping breaths. 'But I'll have to learn Dutch,' she sobs. 'And it has a very complicated system of compound nouns and I don't want to "
74 " Heretics are usually true believers. Martin Luther was a priest. Galileo was very devout. The only thing more dangerous than someone who doesn’t care about the rules is someone who does - and wants to break them anyway. "
75 " We strive to remember that high school will not last forever And look forward to graduation day And the life of that world to come. "
76 " ...as I gulped down the rest of my soda, I had my first epiphany: just because a person says something is true doesn't mean it is, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to keep you from doing something fun. "