“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers.”
― Crash
― Crash
“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― Crash
― Crash
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