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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.
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Witches on the Road Tonight
You don't want to be comforted, do you?" he asks, sadly. "You'd rather be guilty. You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn't do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers. . . The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
Life must have sucked growing up without TV." "Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control. . . Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.
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Sheri Holman
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Witches on the Road Tonight
None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.
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