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81 " Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing. "
― C.J. Tudor , The Chalk Man
82 " A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing. "
83 " I’ve found it’s not cares that wear you down but worries and regrets. "
84 " If our world was a snow globe, it was the day some casual god came along, shook it hard and set it back down again. Even when the foam and flakes had settled, things weren't the way they were before. Not Exactly. They might have looked the same through the glass but, on the inside, everything was different. "
85 " He wanted her to have an abortion? After everything he did?Nicky raised an eyebrow. "Funny how your godly beliefs go out the window when it's your bastard kid and your reputation at stake. "
86 " You look after your friends (...). Friends are everything. "
87 " It's a sad fact that beauty, real beauty, just eclipses everything and everyone around it. "
88 " I guess it was the first time I understood how things can change in an instant. All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away. "
89 " Gradually, as with all dramas and tradgedies, interest in it started to fade. "
90 " So life, as it tends to, moved on. "
91 " So, he wasn't a freak, or a monster or a ghost? No. Just a normal man with a medical condition. "
92 " That's the problem with young people these days. They just don't listen. "
93 " Not many years between us, but it often feels like decades. "
94 " I wonder if saints have to live completely blameless lives or if you can live like a sinner then just perform a few miracles and be sainted anyway? "
95 " Every kid wants to find a dead body. About the only thing a twelve-year-old boy wants to find more is a spaceship, buried treasure and a porn mag. "
96 " You might kindly call my look 'careworn'. Although I've found it's not care that wears you down but worries and regrets. "
97 " Some women are like that. Unusual, even strange-looking, at first glance, but then a smile or subtle cock of the eyebrow transforms them. "
98 " That seems the way with religion. Murder, rape and maim, but all will be forgiven as long as you repent. Never seemed entirely fair to me. But then God, like life, is not fair. "
99 " Some days, I need to mentally prepare myself to deal with them. Other days, the only preparation that helps is a shot of vodka in my morning coffee. "
100 " Most people have done bad stuff at some point in their lives, stuff they wish yhey could take back, stuff they regret. We all make mistakes. We all have good and bad in us. Just because someone does one terrible thing, should that overshadow all the good things they've done? Or are there some things so bad that no good act can redeem them? "