Jeneane Vanderhoof

“To know why the hammer is swung does not remove the pain of its impact."- a reviewer's comment on the abuse described by Christina Crawford in her book, Mommie Dearest when it came out.”
― Book of Times

“We gossip about God in all sorts of ways. When we tell people that they have to wear the right clothes to church, or listen to the right music, or not see certain movies to be a good Christian, we make God petty and small. When we say that He favors one group of people over another, we make God mean and heartless.”
― Jay Bakker, Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, & Society

“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― JR Hazard, Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe