Status Updates From Gesegnetes Wasser (Die Punk...

I don't know if we naturally got to a place where it makes sense Prince wants Holiday to baptize him in the river and she wants to do it

This character is interestingly flawed, consistently a fuck up but not in the dumb way modern fiction characters usually are

More proof that Batman Returns is a queer cinematic masterpiece: "downed it like Selina Kyle swallowing a whole bottle of milk after dying. Morphing into a new creature. Cat woman."

"Why was abuse always part of the story with religion, politicians, society?" Because men

I also think the characterization of the brother hasn't been done well, and she distrusts him so much it makes the reader distrust him. While he's supposed to be gay we've gotten very little from him in personality

I feel like some different framing or something was needed for this very bad, very intense thing that just happened out of nowhere

I really wanted to like Sister Holidays brother but he seems like an asshole. He blames her for taking him into her support group even tho she's not the reason he's down there in the first place and he's a grown ass man, and then blames her when the police want to question everyone in the support group

"Was Prince Dempsey right? Was religion a vestigial organ? Still inside us but no longer needed. And prone to rupture.”

Parallel between the present when a tree branch smashed through truck window and got glass in her face and head while she was wet and the time in the past when she was hit with a glass bottle in the side of the head and was also wet from being rained on...

"Hail Mary, full of grace. Let the afterlife be a lesbian separatist commune. Amen."

"Queer people fight impostor syndrome every day, and Alex didn’t have any business running a library but did it anyway. Go figure."

"Time is not a straight line—it’s not straight at all. Time is queer. Doing whatever it wants, and just when you think you understand it, it surprises you."

The water theme seems more heavy handed in this book than the fire theme in the previous

I'm guessing Sister Honor knew what Father Nathan was up to