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Between Sinners and Saints QUOTES

Between Sinners and Saints QUOTES

1 " just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

2 " Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

3 " I think you want very much to make this black and white--to make us all out to be sinners or saints. But it's just not that simple. I think what you need to accept is that, just maybe, we're all something else. Maybe we're all something in between. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

4 " I realized something on the ride. I realized if I wait until I'm not scared to try new things, then I'll never get to try them at all. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

5 " Has it ever occurred to you," she asked Rachel, "that the constitutional amendment protecting your right to follow Mormon doctrine is the same amendment that's supposed to protect everybody else from being forced to live according to your religious beliefs? "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

6 " You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria. What about my rights? Rachel, just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended. Has it ever occurred to you, that the constitutional amendment protecting your right to follow (your religious) doctrine is the same amendment that's supposed to protect everybody else from being forced to live according to your religious beliefs? "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

7 " He'd tried so hard to fight his fear, but there was a something liberating about giving up the battle and recognizing his fear was part of him. It wasn't something to be exorcised. It wasn't something to be obeyed. It needed only to be acknowledged. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

8 " He loved Jaime. He loved him so much sometimes he thought he must certainly be losing his mind. It was hard to believe his heart could go on beating minute after minute, day after day, when it felt so distorted and huge and fragile. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

9 " There is a gay agenda?" he asked. "Naturally. Although marriage is the second item. Draw two." "So what's the first?" Jackson asked, grinning. He seemed to be the only person at the table besides Levi who realized Jaime was kidding. Everybody else was staring at Jaime with open-mouthed shock. "Recruitment. Especially of children. That's why I'm here, in fact. We're having a membership drive this month, and whoever recruits the most minors wins two free tickets to see Kathy Griffin live. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints

10 " He also wasn't sure where to go to avoid running into some type of surfer gang. He'd seen Point Break and while he suspected it was nothing but Hollywood bullshit, he didn't exactly want to find out the hard way he was wrong. "

― Marie Sexton , Between Sinners and Saints