Mary Doria Russell Quotes

Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained ...

For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was ha...

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for...

The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you ...

Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist tha...

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-ni...

Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the...

we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting ...

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his...

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum phys...

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic ...

He's not a bad guy, John. It's human nature. He wanted it to be some mistake I made that he wouldn't...

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

[John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children....

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

There are times...when we are in the midst of life-moments of confrontation with birth or death, or ...

His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for...

After all, Ignatius of Loyola, a soldier who had killed and whored and made a thorough mess of his s...

Do you know what made me fall in love with you?" George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled...

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when t...

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. W...

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality woul...

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then ...

Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousa...

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the ...

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hung...

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some sens...

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you...