We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a me...
We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?...
To leave the apple unpicked—that was sin.
There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
The strain of a long illness will exhaust the most compassionate.
The sparrow still falls.
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne’s are worth asking. To ask them is a v...
The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.
That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, I never mean...
She had challenged him on this point one night at Anne and George's, inhibitions weakened by Ronrico: Explain this Mass to me!There was a silence as he sat still, apparently looking at the dinner plat...
Religion – the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?’ he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. ‘Random shit happens, and we turn it into storie...
Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground—to be divided and conquered by his grandparents—but a garden, where each person who’d contributed to his existence longed to see that...
Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham sho...
Now, finally, he was in a place where none of that made any difference, where he was simply an Earthman. Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground—to be divided and conquered...
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine, Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. ‘Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.’ But the sparrow still falls, Felipe said.
Jesus Christ, Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.
It’s not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.
It was politicians saying, Let’s you and him fight!
It was just as well that neither Wyatt nor Morgan inquired about the provenance of the teeth themselves, for Wyatt’s new ones were among the hundreds of thousands collected from battlegrounds, sorted...