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Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
“Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.”
“Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.”
“Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.”
“You know, I’ve always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.”
“Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.”
“What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)”
“The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.”
“Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God.… And when the metaphors fail, we think it’s God who’s failed us!”
“Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.”
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Book Keywords:
grief, love, cynicism, soul, fantasy, science-fiction, decision-making, first-sentence, solitude
