

“Nothing is so frightening or evil that it doesn’t come from the same thing that made the stars.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King

“God isn't like that. He knows we've all got things we can't do or can't stop. It doesn't follow that we're excused from those things we can do and can stop.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King

“The thing I do with maps. I've always wondered if it isn't some kind of intuition, better than what everyone else has, but the same sort of thing: whittling unconsciously through possibilities until I arrive at the sole possibility, the truth. Like being very, very good at guessing, so good that sometimes the angels indulge me and make my guess right even when it isn't[...]”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King

“Some ideas are so beautiful that even evil people believe in them.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King

“She could not envision a God who demanded such particularity of belief, whose mercy and forgiveness were confined to such a precise segment of humankind.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King
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