Quotes from Michel Faber

In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick.

Why can't it be the factories that are smashed to the ground, the sweater's dens that are consumed with flames, rather than the opera houses and the fine homes? Why should people living on a higher plane be dragged down to a lower, rather than those on a lower rising to a higher?

The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious. With God, nothing shall be impossible, proclaimed Luke, and that message, which Peter had always thought was the most joyously positive reassurance you could wish for, now turned itself over like a dying insect, and became Without God, everything shall be impossible.

Desconfía de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexión.

Ach,' she says. 'There ain't nuffink in this world but men and women, is there? So you got to care about 'em, ain't you, else what you got to care about?

Reinhold Niebuhr

What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' .. .. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.' p 208

UFCNo such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you...

Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.

Amy, his mother, is not the mending type. Her speciality is thrashing grown-up men until they whimper for mercy.

Hope is one of the strongest things in the universe. Empires can fall, civilizations can vanish into dust Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Lose track of time for a moment –just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years.

Of course, the world had always been crowded with mishaps and disasters, just as it had also been graced with fine achievements and beautiful endeavors which the media tended to ignore—if only because honor and contentment were hard to capture on film.

As Christians, we should spread the love of Christ. If we do our job right, we'll create people who don't want to do wrong.

No such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you...

Hoy día, su vida se asemeja más bien a un periódico: sin sentido, al día y lleno de sucesos disparatados.

The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment.

Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another

Eravamo come due bestie in un Eden degenere.

Todo arte nuevo, para ser auténtico, necesita en cierta medida una... comadrona artística.

Granted, he once opined in a Cambridge undergraduate magazine that 'a single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day

Hoy es el día, el día tormentoso y memorable en que meterá en vereda a su futuro incontrolado.

In the eyes of God, all men and women are naked. Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.

El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.