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1 " Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. "
― Christopher Moore , Coyote Blue
2 " Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit "
3 " One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln. "
4 " My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham... "
5 " That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith. "
6 " Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits. "
7 " Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk "
8 " Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive. "
9 " Why understand when you can believe? "
10 " Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you. They weren't supposed to sit in your office smoking cigarettes. God's didn't do anything. They were supposed to ignore you and let you suffer and die having never known whether your religion was a waste of time. Faith. "
11 " It's easier to keep a secret if people think you're crazy "
12 " If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know. "
13 " Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty. "
14 " You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's syndrome. "
15 " To be safe is to be afraid. "
16 " Back in the buffalo days, the Cheyenne prophet Sweet Medicine had seen a vision of men with hair on their faces who would come bringing a white sand that was poison to Indians. The prophecy had come true, the white sand was sugar, and Adeline blamed the white man for poisoning her right up to two hundred pounds. "
17 " If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey "
18 " The sofa was lumpy enough to have had a body sewed into it; stuffing spilled out of the arms where the victim had tried to escape. "
19 " Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam. "
20 " Liebe - von allen fiesen Streichen, die einem die Ironie des Lebens so spielt, der bei weitem fieseste. "