mymadnesswon:

I do not pray to ask God for things. I pray to thank God for bringing me where I am. To this time, to this place, where… I finally know what I must do in this life. I pray I find the Jinn.
H e   i s   m y   a f t e r l i f e.  I knew him. We knew each other.
                                                                                                                 Now I want to know more.

eggogorgon:

It is fine fiction that America was founded by Pilgrims, seeking freedom to believe as they wished, that they came to the Americas spread and bred and filled the empty land. In truth, the American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape. A forgetting place.