There were human cultures that taught an afterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds, in caverns or oases, but she could not recall any in which if you were very, very good when you died you went to the beach.
Juliahas quoted6 years ago
“Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot.
“Their position seems to be,” Vaygay replied dryly, “that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
the size of a world
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
can't get out
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
spindly-legged, long-necked dappled
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
thinning hair. Life was better up here
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
newborn-puzzlement perhaps
Hugo Gonzalezhas quoted6 years ago
Shall brush my wing
Rakhmat Dharmawanhas quoted7 years ago
Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
Rakhmat Dharmawanhas quoted7 years ago
Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.