“I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.”
“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”
“I don't particularly like confrontation. Unfortunately, confrontation seems to like me quite a lot.”
“It is really quite remarkable,” Sarah said, “that the two of youare sisters.”“I marvel at it every day,” Iris said flatly.”
“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
“What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.”