Mary Doria Russell Quotes
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way
His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.
The poor you will always have with you, ' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.
