“She fights at every moment against the scream that pulses inside her like a living thing.”
― American Dirt
― American Dirt
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“And so the father of lies is the father of inversions, and as a lie exists in parasitic relationship to the truth, so the Enemy exists in relationship to God, the inversion of the good.”
― The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
― The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
“Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment”
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
“She watched a startling ray of sunshine, bursting from a sun as yet unseen, but piercing the greyness of the sky like a shining sword. Even as she watched, another joined it and the clouds were painted a brilliant orange, edged with gold.”
― The Sisters of St Croix
― The Sisters of St Croix
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