Kate Bates

“Rotaries are known as roundabouts here. This is where you are most likely to be T-boned and sideswiped at the same time. In Mississippi you must exercise patience while the driver ahead of you studies the rotary, discarding various theories and adopting others, before lurching forward against the flow of traffic. Avoid at all costs using the rotary’s two-lane system to pass another car. That is what fucked up Dante. The person in the lane beside you is always in the wrong lane at the last second and will swerve into your door, and there you go. Never fuck with anybody in a Dodge Charger. They are all Mississippian Satanists, which is the great white shark of Satanists. Never vote for any politician who reads books about city management and road systems because if you vote for a politician who reads books somebody might, behind your back, insinuate that maybe you are homosexual. In fact, all decisions in life, especially what presidential-candidate bumper sticker you put on your car, should be based entirely on what better promotes your heterosexual prowess.”
― Lee Durkee, The Last Taxi Driver

“Privately, Corrie believed that practising any religion was, at best, a manifestation of mental illness and at worst, a pernicious brainwashing that ultimately turned people against each other rather than uniting them. She lacked the immense capacity for self-delusion that it took to believe in a god.”
― Frances Lloyd, The Gallows Green Killer