Kate Coyle Quotes

It’s funny now to think that we were ever confused by extreme action taken in the name of God.

Believer culture seems to shift so quickly, from benign to terrifying and back again.

(“For God saw that Americans were industrious and made money in His name, and he saw that it was good”). It’s one of the many parts of the Book of Frick that makes you wonder whether or not Frick was just straight-up on ’shrooms when he was writing it.

But it was probably nothing."
"Nothing is nothing anymore, Viv.

This whole country," says my grandmother evenly, "supports a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism which posits that not understanding a phenomenon is just as valid as understanding one, and frankly I'm sick of it.

Even now I think I could only list for him the various things I don’t believe in. But still I wish I could. Because I’m starting to narrow it down. I don’t believe in hate. I don’t believe in money. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe it’s too late.

In addition to founding the Church itself, Frick was the CEO of its accompanying multimillion-dollar corporation. They publish the magazines and run the Church television networks, and they produce end-of-the-world provisions like these—bottles of Holy Spring Water, a bland SpaghettiOs knockoff called Christ Loops.

I mean, these people really believe what they believe."
"But what they believe is so absurd.

That's part of the prophecy of the Rapture, right? The dead will rise and crash our parties?"
He laughs. "Do you really think that's a priority, for the reanimated corpses?"
"Absolutely," I say. "No French onion dip in purgatory.

I'm Harp," my best friend says, business-like. "This is Viv. Personally, I think you guys would make really cute babies together.

What Harp doesn’t understand is that I like my parents—current hiccups in sanity not withstanding.