James K. Morrow - Only Begotten Daughter (1990)

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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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The man was fat. His belly arrived like an advance guard, heralding the bulk to come, huge shoulders, a surplus chin. His white cassock had settled over his body like a tarpaulin dropped on a blimp.

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I think you're so full of shit you've got roses growing out of your ass.

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What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

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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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You wouldn't like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.

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