The Signature of All Things: A Novel

ebullience

“These are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.”

“I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker,” he continued, as though he had not heard her. “We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery, and it grants u

The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity—for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one’s eventual and inevitable demise. Anything le

She wrote, “All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”

obdurate.

zoetic.

Alma that when the Tahitians picked a star to follow for navigation, they called it their aveia—their god of guidance.

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.