Pg248 Quotes

“She leaned against the stone wall of the narrow landing, a hand on her thundering heart. It was the smart thing to do, the right thing to do. She had survived this long, and would only survive the road ahead if she continued to be unnoticed, reliable, quiet.

But she did't want to be unnoticed—not with him, not forever.
He made her want to laugh and sing and shake the world with her voice.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“To associate what is nice with what is evil happened easily in the sixteenth century. Comfortable houses, nice clothes, and orderly, easy lives belonged to the “world” and only dungeons, flight, torture, grief, and anxiety remained for the true followers of Christ. The Anabaptists, living in such an other-worldly atmosphere of persecution, had no time for humour or recreation. At first from necessity, but soon from a brotherhood emphasis on strict asceticism, they ruled out many normal comforts of life. In Switzerland the Anabaptists even condemned congregational singing as a frivolous concession to the senses.”
― Peter Hoover, The Secret of the Strength: What Would the Anabaptists Tell This Generation?

“The purpose [of the alien abduction program] is not to deceive us or to save us or to destroy us but to become us -- to progenerate alien-human hybrids who can blend seamlessly into our society and ultimately supplant us.”
― Timothy Alberino, Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam's Dominion on Planet Earth