Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a w…

- Mary Doria Russell

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. …

- Mary Doria Russell

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

- Mary Doria Russell

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

- Mary Doria Russell

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, an…

- Mary Doria Russell

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

- Mary Doria Russell

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all…

- Mary Doria Russell

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any supe…

- Mary Doria Russell

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.

- Mary Doria Russell