James

“God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

“God doesn't need to come down upon a mountain, for the mountain itself is the revelation. We only have to look at it and we will know how we should live.”
― John Moriarty

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Pregnant women have no ethics.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia