Jen

“Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture. Many people have little or no knowledge of scripture at all. Many others who have more knowledge choose to interpret what they know in ways that are convenient, or that fit their own moral sense of what is good. Still others view their religion as a kind of self-accepted ethnicity, but live lives utterly divorced from any sense of faith.”
― Mohsin Hamid

“It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“We held each other’s hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You