“A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“-I thought you were dead.
-I was, a bit.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“-You said this wasn't a cult.
-Secret society. There's a difference.
-Not from where I'm standing.
-Then take a seat.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“As his older sister, it was my job to lie to him in the name of easing his troubled mind.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“-Who's that guy?
-What guy?
-The one I saw go up the stairs to your room with you.
-Oh, that guy.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“I'd always avoided wearing white...my least favorite absence of color.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“That’s insane! But then, we’re talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren’t renowned for their rationality.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
“All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.”
― John Updike, quote from Couples
“I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“—No vas a renunciar a mí, ¿verdad?
—No —respondió, y lo hizo con absoluta seriedad. Él era suyo, la única persona que había sido suya. Y lo necesitaba, necesitaba a aquel policía que reprimía su dolor con puño de hierro, que mantenía sus cicatrices bien ocultas—. No voy a renunciar a ti.
Sus ojos centelleaban.
—Buena chica.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Bonds of Justice
“فى عام 1484 أصدر البابا أنوسنت الثالث مرسوماً ضد السحر وعين اثنين من المحققين فى محاكم التفتيش لمعاقبة ممارسته. وفى عام 1489 نشر هذان المحققان باللاتينية كتاباً ثقة تحت عنوان "مطرقة النساء الشهيرات" وذهب الرجلان فى كتابهما إلى أن ممارسة السحر أقرب إلى طبيعة النساء منها إلى طبيعة الرجال نظراً لما للنساء من قلوب مليئة بالشر الكامن فيها. وكانت أكثر التهم ضد الساحرات شيوعاً آنذاك أنهن يتسببن فى سوء الأحوال الجوية.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from Religion and Science
“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
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