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“Anna had bypassed all the nonessentials and distilled centuries of learning into one sentence: "And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself." The whole business of adults going to church filled Anna with suspicion. The ide
a of collective worship went against her sense of private conversations with
Mister God. As for going to church to meet Mister God, that was preposterous. After all, if Mister God wasn't everywhere, he wasn't anywhere. For her, churchgoing and "Mister God" talks had no necessary connection. For her, the whole thing was transparently simple. You went to church to get the message whenyou were very little. Once you had got it, you went out and did something about it. Keeping on going to church was because you hadn't got the message or didn't understand it or it was "just for swank.”
― Mister God, This is Anna
a of collective worship went against her sense of private conversations with
Mister God. As for going to church to meet Mister God, that was preposterous. After all, if Mister God wasn't everywhere, he wasn't anywhere. For her, churchgoing and "Mister God" talks had no necessary connection. For her, the whole thing was transparently simple. You went to church to get the message whenyou were very little. Once you had got it, you went out and did something about it. Keeping on going to church was because you hadn't got the message or didn't understand it or it was "just for swank.”
― Mister God, This is Anna
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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