Sarah Perry: ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’ | Sarah Perry | The Guardian

Occasionally it struck him that his love for the stars was no less a matter of faith than his remaining love for God; so his two faiths weren’t opposed, but took up equal residence.

‘My trouble,’ said Thomas, ‘is that I have two suns, and neither outshines the other. In Bethesda I’m the worst of sinners, and in London I’m the strangest of saints, and I am never comfortable anywhere.