Jamie

“Them that can't be killed by knives or bullets usually break their necks falling off a porch or something.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove : A Novel

“Jehovah promises us everlasting life in the New World,
the Brother from the Kingdom Hall says
and Brother Hope, Sister Dell and me are silent
wanting only what’s right outside.
Wanting only this world.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“They either didn’t admit to or didn’t deal with the fact that whatever you make your God Value, you will always be willing, at some point, to bargain away human life in order to get closer to it. Worshipping some supernatural God, some abstract principle, some bottomless desire, when pursued long enough, will always result in giving up your own humanity or the humanity of others in order to achieve the aims of that worship. And what was supposed to save you from suffering then plunges you back into suffering. The cycle of hope-destruction begins anew.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection