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Katie Coyle Quotes

born 1986 United States

Katie Coyle (born c. 1986) is an American writer. She is the author of the Vivian Apple series of young adult novels.

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We could conceivably slow this destruction down, but it would require huge overarching changes in the structure of our society—the kind of change we will never achieve so long as we remain distracted by imaginary acts of God.

Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (2014)

“Bless him”—the Messiah raises a shiny copy of the New Apocalypse Edition of the Book of Frick—“for leaving us this miraculous book, this new edition of his Holy Word, available for only nineteen ninety-nine at Church of America megastores worldwide.”

Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (2014)

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.

Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

(“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.

Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

But I can’t justify the act to myself, no matter how much I like making out with the boy I’d be trying to save. That would be playing by Believer rules—telling myself that violence and the threat of it is okay, if that’s what it takes to get you what you want. “For God so loved the world,” says the Book of Frick, “that he sent us guns with which to protect our homes and women.”

Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katie Coyle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.