katezsz

“And female bodies are not as strong in muscle; though it must be said there is no greater strength than the power in their wombs to create life.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“First they showed me that the war so often vaunted between them was a falsity created by the serpent to sow division and strife and unhappiness in the world. For, I saw, it was from Eve‘s taste of the forbidden fruit that knowledge came, and with knowledge the ability to understand the perfection of the fruit of Mary’s womb and the gift given to the world. And without the flaw of Eve there could be no purity of Mary. And without the womb of Eve, which is the House of Death, there could be no womb of Mary, which is the House of Life. Without the first matrix, there could be no salvatrix, the greatest matrix of all.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“And later, as the bells for Matins sounded in the dark and she walked back in the darkness as though blind, she wondered if in fact this has been the closest she had been to God—not in fact invisible parent, not sun warming the earth and coaxing the seeds from the soil—but the nothing at the center of the self.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“All the people are like grass, the subprioress says suddenly, and their glory is the glory of the field; the grass withers, the flowers fall, but the Word lasts eternal.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix