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“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
“You cant conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”
“She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuff...”
“I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Th...”
“But you do believe, dont you," Rose implored him, "you think its true?" "Of course its true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "its the only thing th...”
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular des...”
“She wasnt religious. She didnt believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers”
