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Wasn’t sure about this one at first but it’s turning out to be quite entertaining.

“An impressively pregnant woman knelt on a cushion before the altar of the Mother of Summer, praying perhaps for a safe delivery, or possibly just for the strength to stand up again.”

“Usually the secrets we keep deep down, ain't meant to hurt other people. Not saying they won't, but not through intentions. Those deep secrets, we hide away because we're afraid what other people might think. How they might judge us, if they knew. And nobody's judgment we scared of more than the one we give our hearts to.”

“And among His wonders is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. For in this, behold, there are messages indeed for all who are possessed of innate knowledge. Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin.”

“As long as he hosted this entity, Pen realized, he need never lack for bedtime stories, though he might lack for the ability to sleep, after.”

Excellent.

Great start!

Good start.

This book is better than it has any right to be haha.

Really loving this. It’s so great!

“Now he understood the meaning of Earth life: ten billion years of evolution to produce—the M&M.. What more could one ask of a planet?”

“There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. So I think there may be positive darkness, and I think dark can have a speed.”

“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.. Maybe my questions matter.”

“Learning is not hard. Not learning is hard. I wonder why they are not learning it for long enough to feel like work.”

“She told us the police think we have knives or guns in our pockets and that they have killed people who were just trying to get out their IDs.. I think that is wrong, but I read where the court decided it was all right if the police were really scared. Yet if anybody else is really scared of the police it's not all right for the scared person to kill a policeman. This does not make sense. There is no symmetry.”

“Autistic persons do not understand these signals; the book says so. I have read the book, so I know what it is I do not understand.”