“There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.”
“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life.”
“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”
“You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
“And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end.”
“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”