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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
In his own soul, he knew with sudden certainty that it was not rebellion or doubt or even sin that broke God's heart; it was indifference.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
I want to belong with someone. I want to feel at the center of something, and not the edge. I want children and grandchildren. I don't want to grow old and die, knowing that when I die, there will be no more like me.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
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 stories and call it sacred scripture-
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
Your sorrow is of no interest to me," Sandoz said softly. "If you want absolution, go to a priest.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
...{Emilio} felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
Your Holiness, we are more than prepared to concede that overpopulation alone is not the sole cause of poverty and misery," Giuliani began. "Fatuous oligarchies," Gelasius suggested. "Ethnic paranoia. Whimsical economic systems. An enduring habit of treating women like dogs …
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations."
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
One thing I can say for certain. There�'s just no telling whom God will take a liking to.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
Now here's my idea about God. I think we're like the cat. I think that God is like the man outside the box. I think that if the cat believes in the man, the man is there. And if the cat is an atheist, there is no man." "Maybe there's a lady," Nico suggested helpfully. Frans
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
But Schrödinger said that the cat isn't actually alive or dead unless and until the man outside opens the box to see that the cat is alive or dead." Nico thought that over. "You could listen to hear if it's purring." Frans
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
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 something of themselves had taken root and grown.
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Mary Doria Russell _ Children of God
...she was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
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