"What Harp doesn’t understand is that I like my parents—current hiccups in sanity not withstanding."

"“I’m Harp,” my best friend says, business-like. “This is Viv. Personally, I think you guys would make really cute bab…"

"“That’s part of the prophecy of the Rapture, right? The dead will rise and crash our parties?” He laughs. “Do you rea…"

"“I mean, these people really believe what they believe.” “But what they believe is so absurd.”"

"In addition to founding the Church itself, Frick was the CEO of its accompanying multimillion-dollar corporation. The…"

"“This whole country,” says my grandmother evenly, “supports a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism which pos…"

"“But it was probably nothing.” “Nothing is nothing anymore, Viv.”"

"(“For God saw that Americans were industrious and made money in His name, and he saw that it was good”). It’s one of …"

"Believer culture seems to shift so quickly, from benign to terrifying and back again."

"Even now I think I could only list for him the various things I don’t believe in. But still I wish I could. Because I…"