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I had always been impatient with superstition. If I ever met a God, I would apologize for disbelieving in Him, but not until then.

— Brian McNaughton The Throne of Bones (1997)

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Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.

They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home.

The Throne of Bones (1997)

For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot.

The Throne of Bones (1997)

When I was three or four, an older kid tried to scare me away from a barn full of dangerous junk by telling me the Bogeyman lived there. I spent a lot of time crawling around beneath rusted machinery and through barbed wire looking for the Bogeyman, but no luck.

I believe that we are soft creatures in a world with some very hard edges. It's remarkable that we survive at all, much less do high deeds or write great music. I think … tension … is a condition of our existence, and I do my best to depict it.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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