Status Updates From Hell is the Absence of God

"Neil even knows that by being beyond God’s awareness, he is not loved by God in return. This doesn’t affect his feelings either, because unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.
And though it’s been many years that he has been in Hell, beyond the awareness of God, he loves Him still. That is the nature of true devotion.”

"Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And since God hadn’t previously played a role in Neil’s life, he wasn’t afraid of being exiled from God.”

“Like every other non-devout person, Neil had never expended much energy on where his soul would end up; he’d always assumed his destination was Hell, and he accepted that... Hell, after all, was not physically worse than the mortal plane.
It meant permanent exile from God, no more and no less… Neil was one of those who were unmoved; as far as he could tell, the lost souls as a group were no unhappier than he was..."

Hier beendet, die Kurzgeschichte auf die Arrival basiert war der Hauptgrund warum ich das Buch gelesen habe und war tatsächlich am interessantesten.