But the more we went to church and the longer I sat in those pews the more I learned about how Christianity works: If you’re Native American and you pray to the wolves, you’re a savage. If you’re African and you pray to your ancestors,
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“Terrible people can do good things sometimes. But they like doing the terrible things more.”
― All the Sinners Bleed
― All the Sinners Bleed
“Silence stretches until I ask one last question. One final interrogation. “Dad, did you ever love me?” Pain flickers over my mother’s face. But he frowns. “When you refuse God, what do you give me to love?”
― Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
― Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
“Our minds work hard to avoid dissonance – if we hold a belief strongly enough, our minds will forcefully reject conflicting evidence so that we can maintain the integrity of our understanding of the world.”
― Penpal
― Penpal
“Maybe people never change, and it’s only our perceptions that alter the view.”
― Hooked
― Hooked
“Life sucks,” he says randomly. “Then you die. Might as well live while you’re still alive,”
― The Risk
― The Risk
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