11 Quotes by Lisa Halliday

Your problem with religion is virtually every faithless person's problem with religion: that it offers irreducible answers. But some questions in the end simply aren't empirically verifiable...All religion really does is to be honest about this, by giving the reliance a specific name: faith.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of all this sitting by herself with nothing to do: every so often she tried again to read the book in her lap, but it was made up almost exclusively of long paragraphs, and no quotation marks whatsoever, and what is the point of a book, thought Alice, that does not have any quotation marks?