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21 " Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
22 " It is hard to truly commune with the recently departed when carrying a plastic bag of dog feces. "
23 " Her straw-colored pigtails did not qualify her to be Rapunzel and could not be spun to gold by imp fingers, she was too active to be Sleeping Beauty, too outspoken to be Cinderella, too keen on tall fellows to be Snow White. She held little carriage with sleeping upon legumes to display her regal daintiness and imagined that the only result would be a mushy, green stain on the underside of her mattress. Her eyes met the criteria only of the evil, ice queen. "
24 " We can mourn and grieve and will face innumerable sunsets without him. But we will still face the sunsets. "
25 " In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane. "
26 " It’s hard to stay upset over someone else’s happy ending. "
27 " Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage. "
28 " Love could not save her from the bargains others had made. "
29 " I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll. "
30 " He forestalls death with an orange pill bottle, just a few more weeks, fifty pills at a time. "
31 " There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as time, all of history, is the hesitation in saying "Yes. "
32 " Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control. "