"We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth."

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Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

Sheri S. Tepper

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