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“Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance. Which meant that even bad things did some good because they were a challenge and you didn't always know what good effects they might have.”
~ from “The Year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood, pg 279

“‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ That is the point: not seen. We cannot know God by reason and measurement; indeed, excess reason and measurement lead to doubt…” pg 234-235

“the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and thus into humanity; from firelessness into fire, and thence into weaponry; and from seasonal mating into an incessant sexual twitching… ever downward.” Pg 188

“Suicide used to be called ‘death by misadventure’.”

~ from The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, pg 183.

Great book!

“Adam One said music was built into us by God: we could sing like the birds but also like the angels, because singing was a form of praise that came from deeper than just talking, and God could hear us better when we were singing. I try to remember that.”

~ “The Year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood, pg 129. This is book # 2 of “The MaddAddam Trilogy”; “Oryx and Crake” was Book # 1.