6 Quotes by Piers Paul Read

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? ‘None,’ replied Father Andrés. ‘There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Oh, God,” he prayed once again, “by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path”.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

Truth is always duller than fiction.