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“Have you met Henry?” Alex says. “How am I supposed to do that? He has the personality of a cabbage.”
“If I am right about them, it is unlikely that there will ever be the kind of open contact between our two species that seems so logical and useful to us. Even a well-intentioned human being would pose a threat, in that his accidentally taking an action they had not anticipated might cause them literally to lose track of him right in the middle of one of their own craft.”
― Communion
― Communion
“A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.”
― An Orphan's Tale
― An Orphan's Tale
“The act of exorcism implies a “driving out” of the demon, but it’s really more like placing a demon under oath. In some cases, it may be more than one demon inhabiting a person. The word “exorcism” comes from the Greek ek and the verb horkizo, which means “I cause [someone] to swear” and refers to “putting the spirit or demon to oath.” It’s more easily explained as invoking a higher authority to bind the entity so it can be caused to act contrary to its own will.”
― The Devil Came to St. Louis: The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism
― The Devil Came to St. Louis: The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism
“Maybe you and I are larvae, and the “visitors” are human beings in the mature form. Certainly, we are consuming our planet’s resources with at least the avidity of caterpillars on a shrub.”
― Communion
― Communion
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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