179 Quotes by Mary Doria Russell

He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so, had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God.

The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.

You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love? You are just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide. Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe that the other person loves you back...

What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren’t human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.

At the risk of descent into unscientific generalization, I must report to you that ninety percent of Texans give the other ten percent a bad name, he told Martha Anne.

Then he smiled into her eyes and asked, in the dry academic tones of an astronomer discussing a theoretical point with a colleague, ‘How long do you suppose I can go on loving you more every day?’ And he devised for her a calculus of love, which approached infinity as a limit, and made her smile again.

I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.

Home... if there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.