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"...it’s natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things."

"It’s part of something I’ve noticed more and more in the modern world, appearing in all sorts of newspaper rumours and conversational catchwords; something that’s arbitrary without being authoritative. People readily swallow the untested claims of this, that, or the other. It’s drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition."

“Well, tolerance implies that there’s something unpleasant to be endured,” said Emma. She spoke slowly, patiently, like she might to a student who was doomed to fail the class. “Right? You tolerate slow traffic or bad weather. Why is it that when anyone talks about the way that straight people should feel about the queer community, they think tolerance is the ideal? Why not respect? Admiration? Love?”

She knew that she should feel sorry for her husband. And maybe a few months ago she would have. But the attic had changed her. Her emotions had been rearranged like a puzzle and now, more often, anger slid into place before sympathy.