‘… And a bag of veggie soup’ (sniffle)

‘… And a bag of veggie soup’ (sniffle) October 10, 2013

“I hope you will accept this money and find forgiveness.”

I thought she was very, very brave.”

“Dr. Helmy did everything for me out of the generosity of his heart and I will be grateful to him for eternity.”

“We should never underestimate the importance of just showing up.”

“If art has any insight into life today, it is that we have no other interior than the world.”

“Still, my version of Heaven is a room where I sit down with everyone I’ve ever harmed and everyone who’s harmed me and we hear each other’s side of the story so we can finally make amends and love each other again: I want every last person who carries a fragment of my heart returned to me.”

Turtle tears are of course rare and precious — turtles are notoriously emotionally stalwart — but luckily, resourceful butterflies know how to branch out.”

“Sex, money, and power all take a backseat to religion as a source of evil.”

Being interrupted by the Bible, in hard but often life-giving ways, is something that I can deeply identify with.”

“If you really cared about your neighbors you would take the time to get to know them and invest in their lives, not dump a bait-and-switch religious tract in their children’s candy bag and send them on their merry way.”

“In a typical evangelical church, half the people believe mental illness can be solved by prayer and Bible study alone.”

“The best evangelical minds trained in the best research institutions have to make believe they don’t know what they know.”

“Good thing they used four interlocks instead of just three.”

“You should be quite relieved that you never have been, and hopefully never will be, on Hart Island.”

“So now we’re going to be forced to pay $100 per year to do something we’ve been doing for free for decades.”

“Above a 400 thread count the number is essentially meaningless.”

“So I’ve learned never to say no when someone calls me up and says, ‘Hey, I’ve got some old films in my attic, do you want to come look?'”

“It’s with very real regret that we must inform you that your petition to play devil’s advocate has been denied.”

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