
The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel

There are times of our lives when we feel indestructible even though quite a lot of things are going wrong, and other times when everything is going well yet we feel anxious and fragile from the moment we wake up.
Michel Faber • The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
able to see that they’d been rejecting their own Creator, fighting against Love itself. For years they blundered and stumbled through life wearing cumbersome armor that was supposed to protect them, and then one day they saw it for the chafing, imprisoning, useless baggage it was, and cast it off,
Michel Faber • The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
a universe made dangerous by the gift of free will,