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“Being mortal,” said Michael, “you will live a little longer than a grasshopper, but not as long as a turtle. Knowing that you must die, you are full of longing: you wish to experience something, and have it last for ever.”

"And he dreamed of a magnificent cathedral able to do honor to the city, and to his diocese. He imagined it rising into the clouds...It soared upward, in the direction of Heaven. immaculate, marble..."

I love watching The Bishop's Wife (1947 starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven) every year around Christmas. I don't know how I'm just now finding out it was adapted from this book.