“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
“To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, quote from Americanah
“I wasn’t prepared for you, Elise. Holy hell…not even close.”
― Lara Adrian, quote from Midnight Awakening
“Yep, that pretty much describes my life: because Poseidon.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Hidden Oracle
“She had finally come so far that she seemed to be seeing her own life from the uppermost summit of a mountain pass. Now her path led down into the darkening valley, but first she had been allowed to see that in the solitude of the cloister and in the doorway of death someone was waiting for her who had always seen the lives of people the way villages look from a mountain crest. He had seen sin and sorrow, love and hatred in their hearts, the way the wealthy estates and poor hovels, the bountiful acres and the abandoned wastelands are all borne by the same earth. And he had come down among them, his feet had wandered among the lands, stood in the castles and in huts, gathering the sorrows and sins of the rich and the poor, and lifting them high up with him on the cross." (1081)”
― Sigrid Undset, quote from Kristin Lavransdatter
“It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal"
"Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard" I said.
"Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves" he said.
I smiled. "Yeah.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from The Killing Dance
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