The Afterlives Quotes

“Why we dare to assume a physical form and brave a world such as ours, so full of tragedy and fear and pain, murders and rapes, war, ceaseless brutality and conflict. We wouldn’t subject ourselves to this unless it was worth it, on some level.”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives

“Everything you fear—the viruses, the violence—we’ve always been living with it, in some form. What’s changed is that today we’re just more aware. It only seems like there’s more to fear because we’ve been so successful at identifying all the various threats.”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives: A Novel

“That the Bible is the absolute word of God? (The Bible was written by men about God, not the other way around.)”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives

“Scale back enough, time-wise, and all we are is a quick parade of exploding hearts.”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives

“The whole is contained in every single fragment, in every piece.”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives

“I wasn’t at all comforted by that idea, by the possibility of multiple afterlives and a soul hungering through them for eternity.”
― Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives