Roland in Moonlight Quotes

“There’s nothing to fear. Nothing at all. Over there, across the dark waters, on that far shore, there’s only beauty. Dogs can see it, you know. We can peer through the thin places between worlds —even through the veil between this life and the next. And over there you and I are already together, and always have been, and always will be. Part of you remembers. Part of everyone does. Hence those myths we’ve discussed so often—Eden, for instance.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“Again he looked away, somewhat reservedly, the faint smile still on his lips. “I keep that side of my life quiet. Actually, last night was a celebration of my most recent volume of haiku.” “Your… your most recent?”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“Even so, none of us just then even remotely suspected what an inscrutable and mighty soul had entered our lives.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“They’re like little obnoxious machines of chattering anarchy.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“We’re eternal, you and I,” Roland continued. “There’s a place of light that was there before all things and that will be there after all things and that always is. There we’ve always dwelled together. You remember, we’ve said as much before: the myth of the celestial twin or double each of us has there above, where we were, will be, and even now are. In the Aeon. In the Dreamtime.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight

“A sleep—my love, my only love—a sleep as boundless and abysmal as the mystery of God.”
― David Bentley Hart, Roland in Moonlight