Lent

by Jo Walton

Patience is not one of the gifts God has granted him.

If the temptations weren’t actually tempting, it wouldn’t be much of a choice, would it?

Some people can be shamed into doing good, the Lukewarm need to be shamed out of doing evil.

The sun is sliding down towards the hills behind him, stretching his shadow out before him like a long-legged giraffe, and gilding the city.

It is not unbearable, for he must bear it.

tables are for piling books.” “All flat surfaces are for piling books,”

“God can do anything, but it seems apparent that God doesn’t like to break the laws of the universe.

“The Cardinal gave me a dispensation,” Pico says. “Well, I dispense with his dispensation, and you will be silent until further notice.

I’m an honest man. I stay bought.