“She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no persecution of Jews as ‘Christ-killers’, no Northern Ireland ‘troubles’, no ‘honour killings’, no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists fleecing gullible people of their money (‘God wants you to give till it hurts’). Imagine no Taliban to blow up ancient statues, no public beheadings of blasphemers, no flogging of female skin for the crime of showing an inch of it.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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