James K. Morrow - Julie Quotes

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Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.

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Don't believe everything you hear about hell. Next time you run into some anti-hell propaganda, consider the source.
You inflict eternal punishment on people, Julie countered.
Merely because it's our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.

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As with the rest of Phoebe's species, Julie must not let her become dependent upon supernatural solutions, trading one addiction for another.

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What most people don't realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang—science—and suddenly a proposition is true because it's true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

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The labels fascinated Julie—Cutty Sark, Dewar's, Beefeater—each logo dense with staid print and Anglo-Saxon dignity, as if alcohol were really a type of literary criticism and not a leading cause of traffic fatalities and brain rot.

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I'm really interested in this stuff. Julie rubbed a carton labeled ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.
Physics?
Physics, biology, stars, everything.
Howard said, Good for you. These days most people prefer to impoverish their minds with mysticism.

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He smiled. Julie's wedding, exquisite thought. Would his grandchildren be free of godhead? Was divinity a recessive trait?

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Murray held his daughter at arm's length. Does God... er, visit you?
She doesn't even whisper to me. I listen, but she doesn't talk. It's not fair.
God didn't talk. The best news he'd heard since Gabriel Frostig announced his embryo. Look Julie, it's good she doesn't talk. God asks her children to do crazy things. It's good she doesn't whisper. Understand?
I guess.
Really?
Uh-huh. Where'd the crab go? Is he looking for his friends?
A profound weariness pressed upon Murray. Yes. Right. His friends. It's good God doesn't whisper.

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