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He had never had much patience for religion. What was it, really, but superstition with money?
“The Church is not that keen on God, in my experience,” said Baron Rikard. “They think of him much as a lawyer thinks of the law. Something to be got around.” “You’re a vampire,” snapped Brother Diaz. “Of course you hate the Church.” “On the contrary, I am a great admirer of the tenets of your religion. I merely find it a shame that the Saved are, as a rule, so little like their Saviour.”
Lying was a sin, apparently, unless you did it outrageously and persistently enough, in which case it qualified as scripture.
Pretend to be what you want to be, one day you might find you’re not pretending any more.
“If no one blamed themselves for the things they could not help…” She gave him a faint smile as she turned away from the Athenaeum and led them on towards the palace. “Wouldn’t the whole Church go out of business?”
“Hope is a precious resource,” murmured Jakob. “We shouldn’t waste it against the inevitable.”
“My greatest battles I fought against myself, and they were all defeats, and I’ve suffered far less than I deserve.”
“They say God is blind,”
“I say he is deaf, dumb, and a fool besides. He chooses those who choose themselves.”
“It’s not what you’ve done that makes you good or bad. It’s what you do next.”
