Jay Kempter

“The next successful Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, deliberately chose a citadel of white supremacy -- the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi -- as the kickoff site for his presidential campaign, where he declared his support for "states rights," code words signaling that the federal government should leave local jurisdictions to handle the "race problem" as they see fit.”
― James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

“When the light reached its zenith, the group of 1,000 Travelers down below could no longer be seen. Suddenly, the intense light ceased to be, returning the lighting of the stadium to a normal level. Dani felt a moment of disorientation, but she soon recovered and looked down at an empty stadium.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

“The two are one,' said the Merlin, sitting very erect, 'but the followers of Christ have chosen to say, not that they shall have no other Gods before their God, but that there is no other God save for their God; that he alone made the world, that he rules it alone, that he alone made the stars and the whole of creation.'
Igraine quickly made the holy sign against blasphemy.
'But that cannot be,' she insisted. 'No single God can rule all things … and what of the Goddess? What of the Mother...?'
'They believe,' said Viviane, in her smooth low voice, 'that there is no Goddess; for the principle of woman, so they say, is the principle of all evil; through woman, so they say, Evil entered this world; there is some fantastic Jewish tale about an apple and a snake.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“What is hell? Holding your breath forever.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Gulab