Bethany – Character Quotes

— Remember that seminary student I tried to set you up with?
— The 20-year-old. The one I could have babysat for in high school.

— When some quiet little infection destroyed my uterus, where was God? When my husband decided he couldn't be with a wife who couldn't bear children where was God? To hell with him.
— Don't allow eons of history and life to get blinked out of being just because of a grudge against your creator. So you lost the ability to make life. You're being offered the chance to play mother to the world by acting like one and protecting it. Saving it!

— My ex-husband sort of screwed up my relationship awareness barometer.
— You're divorced.
— That's a nice way of putting it. I call it being dumped.
— I was dumped once.
— Don't you just constantly question your value? Like, why was I so easy to cast aside?
— And you wonder if the other party is gonna come to their senses and call you back.
— And they always tell you it'll hurt less with time.
— When actually it hurts more.
— You know what we need?
— What do we need?
— We need drinks. We need a lot of drinks.

— What do you want with me?
— I am to charge you with a holy crusade.
— For the record, I work in an abortion clinic.
— Noah was a drunk. Look what he accomplished. And no one's asking you to build an ark.

— If we're wrong, what religion is right?
— It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, Just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains gotta wake up.

— All this means is a redefinition of that identity. The incorporation of this new data into who you are. Be who you've always been. Just be this as well from time to time.
— Guess this means no more cheating on my taxes.
— To say the least.