When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something
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“In the end it’s about staying power. They should put that on headstones, “Got tired.” Maybe not tired of life, but at least too tired to hold on to it.”
― Prince of Thorns
― Prince of Thorns
“began to resemble what I once imagined church might be like, a church you could bear, where people laughed and enjoyed each other and did not care if they were right all the time or if other people were”
― I Cheerfully Refuse
― I Cheerfully Refuse
“Nona: a book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat books with respect.”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“he found himself looking forward to a tomorrow for the first time in forever.”
― The Hurricane
― The Hurricane
“There are few agonies worse than grasping about for a new career in a world where you seem to have no place. It’s as though I’m the odd man out in a game of duck-duck-goose, watching people settle into their lives, happy as a clam, while I stand here with no place and no prospects. It hits a person at their core.”
― The Lost Colony
― The Lost Colony
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