“Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went”

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name. That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that. He tried to think what a big thought that must be; but he could only think of God. God was God's name just as his name was Stephen.”

“A brick could be used to send Satan back from whence he came. But where did he come from? Probably Washington DC.
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“A man could not always be where he belonged, though.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“He wondered where that stuff went to, where love went to, how a person could just love somebody one day and boom –- the next day love somebody else.”