The Drowsy Bookworm

“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, you're a primitive. But when white people pray to a guy who turns water into wine, well, that's just common sense.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There’s something very satisfying about outwitting religious fanaticism.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“She loved this most in the world—sitting between Caine and the fire, Patch holding down her toes, and the numbers in front of her. There was not a safer place in the world.”
― K.J. Jackson, Vow

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood