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This is my fluff book for taking breaks from The Elegant Universe. I love Koontz. You can always rely on him for an engaging, fun read. This one, funnily enough, has to do with time travel, which has played a big role in the last 6 or 7 books I've re
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This book in incredible. Anyone else who's tried to explain the universe, or relativity, or quarks, or anything of the nature to me, well, my head just shuts down. I heard the author on NPR, being interviewed for his latest book, and the guy actually
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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