179 Quotes by Mary Doria Russell

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?” He said nothing more that day, but Ha’anala spent hours considering his words. A soul, she decided, was the most real part of a person, and to discover what is real requires privacy.

We are what we fear in others.

We are none of us born into Eden,” Doc said reasonably. “world’s plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what’s the best way to play a bad hand?“...

It’s not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.

It was politicians saying, “Let’s you and him fight!

Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why – I really wish some psychologist would explain this – but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake the conviction that Emilio was right, that they were meant to be here, doing this impossible thing.

You know, I’ve always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.

He wondered then if Jesus expected gratitude as Lazarus emerged, stinking, from the crypt. Maybe Lazarus was a disappointment to everyone, too.