“give your children enough money to do something but not enough money to do nothing.”
this was a quickie that i finished on the way to branch #79-the dawes branch. it’s a cute one, with VHS still on the shelf and good advice not to binge whilst self-checking. i love that there are still library adventures to be had. i’m currently enjoying another treasure of that trip-gabriel iglesias’ hot and fluffy. i went to the LGBT literary speed-dating meetup yesterday and it was interesting, i’m glad i went to a meetup event-but it makes me just want to track down the gay librarian at the gladstone library that started the event in the first place. but i appreciate the discussion of the emergence of YA as a genre as well as the questioning of the existing genres-non/fiction, auto/biography, etc. but back to the book-i seemed to really be attached to one story:
“He hated the way she pushed religion on him. Like it was drugs. Like one hit off her crack pipe of belief and she’d hook him for life.” (31, Somebody Up There Likes You)
“Death and Lucifer sat in God’s office playing poker and sharing a bottle of wine.
‘It’s not a question of efficiency,’ said Death, ‘it’s a question of precision. You give one person TB, you give a thousand people TB. Then you spend the next hundred years rebirthing all the people who weren’t supposed to die in the first place. You’re just creating more work for yourself. I’m saying, you get your guy hooked on Camels, boom-you got yourself a dead guy. No fuss, no muss.’” (37, ibid.)
oh, and the one about god being a chicken. that’s a classic. the quote, off the top is from the descendants, a movie with some timing. and george muthafuckin’ swooney.
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