“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
“My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.”
“But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.”
“At the end of the day, what it all comes down to is that believers are basically scared shitless of the very god whom they believe loves them. This reminds of an abused dog that lives in fear of being beaten by their master, but still dutifully retrieves the morning newspaper.”
“I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.”