If you know the book from which the title of this entry is stolen without having read any further: you. are. awesome. let's talk? xD

Okay, so I was sitting here, reading the Bible and thinking of that particular Book, Good Omens (Gaiman and Prachett), and I was wondering to myself what things G.K. Chesterton might have said in order to have received such an honorable dedication. Let me put this out there: I had no idea who Chesterton was, and I'm still learning.

Eventually, when I am not completely bogged down with school....it being 5:00 a.m., me being sick, my mind turned over to fury and depression this past week, and my new-found preoccupation of reading the Bible....it'll probably be a while, but I hope to read some of his works. I have a feeling I might very well enjoy them. (You know, after I get through my friggin' reading list I've had for myself since, like, high school....)

Anyways, the final (lower) portion of this entry is dedicated to quotes of G.K. Chesterton's that I found particularly enjoyable and truthful. (And I must concur with Gaiman, Prachett, and –of course– Crowley, Chesterton was /definitely/ a man who knew what was going on.)

THESE HAVE BEEN CHOSEN VERY CAREFULLY. <3 ((I invite you to come back and reflect on them~))

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"Coincidences are spiritual puns."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."

"In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

"White... is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."

"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."

"The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen."

"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."