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181 " Jesus says, " Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me." He says, " The first shall be last and the last shall be first," and infuriating things like " if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it." And every single time I die to something—my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way—every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted. "
182 " If one Egyptian tailor hadn’t cheated on the threads of Joseph’s mantle, Potiphar’s wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh’s dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor. "
― Peter Kreeft
183 " We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh. "
― John Patrick Hickey , Oops! Did I Really Post That
184 " I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard. "
― S.A. Tawks , Mule
185 " I'd gotten high enough to fly through time. "
186 " She has the most delicious thoughts about you, Tamlin,” he said. “She’s wondered about the feeling of your fingers on her thighs—between them, too.” He chuckled. Even as he said my most private thoughts, even as I burned with outrage and shame, I trembled at the grip still on my mind. Rhysand turned to the High Lord. “I’m curious: Why did she wonder if it would feel good to have you bite her breast the way you bit her neck?” “Let. Her. Go.” Tamlin’s face was twisted with such feral rage that it struck a different, deeper chord of terror in me. “If it’s any consolation,” Rhysand confided to him, “she would have been the one for you—and you might have gotten away with it. A bit late, though. She’s more stubborn than you are. "
― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)