The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

by Mary Doria Russell

‘Lord, I believe. Help me in my disbelief.’

‘You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love?’ she asked him. ‘You are just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide. Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and that you can trust him not to hurt you.’

‘There’s an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists.’

‘Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine,’ Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. ‘“Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.”’ ‘But the sparrow still falls,’ Felipe said.