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61 " There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate. "
― Thomm Quackenbush , Flies to Wanton Boys
62 " While some dogs existed with the paranoia that the whole world infringed on their property rights and needed furious barking to be reminded of their place, this dog wanted only to find warm places to sleep and enough canned food to eat. Any atavistic memory of wolfdom had been bred out of his ancestors centuries ago. "
63 " Humans feel bereft of meaning; you need this mythology to shape the skeleton of your lives. Without myths, how can anyone live in this world and feel fulfilled? "
64 " What marvelous fortune to have lived to see a world that would one day make you. "
65 " Faith is best when it is tested, but not when it is questioned. "
66 " For most, ghost hunting was a few steps escalated from telling scary stories around a campfire. "
67 " I used to figure that Santa was the zombie. Not like modern zombies, more like the voodoo ones. The elves resurrect this long dead saint to do their festive bidding every year because they were magically restricted to the North Pole. It’s entirely possibly my mom let me watch too many horror movies. "
68 " You will find that we simply provided the noose. You built the gallows, mounted the steps, put your neck in the rope, and jumped. "
69 " It’s not like I’m the first siren to ever make it big… Play ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on a road trip some time and tell me everyone in the car doesn’t stop what they are doing to sing. "
70 " We are much too hot to feel the cold. "
71 " Grammar is like your overarching compulsion. It’s math with words. "
72 " There’s always someone stumbling upon the weird and thinking they are the first. "
73 " Everything mortal wears a chain with its death on the other end. None of you should escape that you are on earth only a very short time, but you all think you have figured out how to be gods. Tell me the story of the man who sees his death and loves it as much as it loves him. "
74 " Angels are beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God. "
75 " In these books, there were spells and rituals for making a living soul something hungry and desperate like him, but he didn’t find likelihood in any of them. All it told him was that man was terrified of nothing so much as death. Having died, he could think of dozens of things more worth his fear. "
76 " Roselyn corseted Shane in her second best bodice, causing Shane to question in gasps how women who could not heal cracked ribs managed the feat of breathing. “Breathing,” Roselyn assured her, “was overrated. "
77 " Don’t cheer for the roadies. It only encourages their poor life choices. "
78 " She had loved and been loved, but she felt in this moment of embrace as though there were nothing in her not shaped by love, from the chipped purple paint on her toenails to the fuzz in her belly button to her scarecrow hair escaping from Roselyn’s ministrations and unguents. She was love, standing on love, breathing love, digesting love. "
79 " The angel was not light or dark, but something else entirely. An angel, he knew in that moment, was not corporeal. It was ancient Aramaic translated into binary as transcribed to a Japanese scholar. It was the spot in a solar flare seen from feet away. The images of angels were the shadows cast by their fire. "
80 " We shall not extend ourselves with magic when bureaucracy serves as fine an end. "