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181 " He threw the Bible into the trumpet case as well. There had to be something in there, some useful tips for his situation, a homeopathic remedy that you could apply when you came down with a bad case of the devil. "
― Joe Hill , Horns
182 " When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head. "
― Joe Hill , NOS4A2
183 " If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. "
184 " Terry is sure that Ig has never even kissed another girl, let alone fucked one, and he has wished for a while now that Iggy had more experience. Not because Terry didn't want his brother to be with Merrin, but because...well, because. Because love requires context. Because first relationships are by their very nature immature. So Merrin wanted them both to have a chance to grow up. So what? "
185 " By the time I knew it was a mistake, it was too late to come back. That's usually how it is. "
186 " It’s easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I’ve done it myself. But it isn’t religion that’s wired that way – it’s man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don’t they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else’s happiness need not mean less happiness for you? "
― Joe Hill , The Fireman
187 " Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out "
188 " I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you. He is alive and well but in no position to offer salvation, being damned Himself for His lacrimal indifference. He was lost the moment He demanded fealty and worship before He would offer His protection. The unmistakeable bargain of a gangster. Whereas the devil is anything but indifferent. The devil is always there to help those who are ready to sin, which is another word for ‘live’. "
189 " Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it. "
190 " No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end. "
― Joe Hill , Locke & Key
191 " …if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? "
192 " You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal. "
― Joe Hill , 20th Century Ghosts
193 " I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other. "
― Joe Hill
194 " Don't believe everything you hear today "
195 " Don't waste time mourning. Organize "
196 " The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them. "
― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box
197 " Harper thought it would be a toss-up, which term for women she hated more: bitch or hen. A hen was something you kept in a cage, and her sole worth was in her eggs. A bitch, at least, had teeth. "
198 " He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead. "
199 " I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash. "
200 " It sounded like delusion until you remembered that people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on. "