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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

“if people can make a house a home, they can make a house a hell.”

‘people act as if this had nothing to do with her. as if she’s a sort of saint, just because she’s a fraction less heinous than Boris Johnson.’

But what’s so beautiful about a fool, he says, is that a fool never knows when to give up. It was Grandmom who used to say that.

Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.

“that’s what gods do,” he says, “they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.”

“I like thinking that it doesn’t need to be fancy to be special. Maybe… maybe they’d remember I like fountain soda best or daisies instead of roses. Little things that’d let me know they’ve been paying attention”

“that is like asking- why stay inside a house on fire? East to say when you are standing on the street, a safe distance from the flames. Harder when you are still inside, convinced you can douse the blaze before it spreads, or rushing room to room, trying to save what you love before it burns.”

“is it life,” he counters “if there is no death to balance it? or is its brevity what makes it beautiful?”