“God is dead," said Maneck. "That's what a German philosopher wrote."
She was shocked. "Trust the Germans to say such things," she frowned. "And do you believe it?"
"I used to. But now I prefer to think that God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”
― A Fine Balance
She was shocked. "Trust the Germans to say such things," she frowned. "And do you believe it?"
"I used to. But now I prefer to think that God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”
― A Fine Balance
“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee?”
―
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee?”
―
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
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