Donna

“I don’t think so. I believe there’s a God watching over us and that we return to him when we die. Why he lets the horrible things happen that happen, and why good people are always suffering, I don’t know.” “Why do you assume suffering is bad? Maybe it makes us what we are? I wouldn’t blame your God for that.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“Church services were entertaining at first. They’d hold serpents ’cause of a line in Mark that says, ‘They will pick up serpents with their bare hands and the poison will not hurt them.’ They’d hold diamondback rattlesnakes, six or seven of ’em at a time, and sing hymns.” Lazarus was quiet a moment. “I saw them lifting snakes and I thought, These people really believe. They have skin in the game. These people know.” He took a slow drag from the vape. “I found out they defanged the snakes before they brought them to church.” “That seems like a smart choice.” He looked at her now and said, “If they really believed it, they would’ve left the fangs in.”
― Victor Methos, The Silent Watcher

“I understand that. I certainly needed to have what I didn’t. But there comes a time”
― J.D. Robb, Stolen in Death

“Common sense can be more readily expected when writing for the general public than when writing for the intelligentsia.”
― Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks & White Liberals