Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

by Mary Doria Russell

“Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood,”

Never give a woman reasons that can be argued with. Say no, or prepare for defeat.

After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.

“Haste in a moment, regrets forever,”

If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it is the utter emptiness of a corpse.

In the absence of certainty, faith is more than mere opinion; it is hope.