Stories of God

a new perspective.
i think i'm going to reread this book.
these are some of my favorite parts:


He had endowed the birds with wings, so that on earth too there would be something like the angels.


But what makes a dead person different from someone who becomes serious, turns away from the passing scene, and goes into seclusion to quietly consider the answer to something that has tormented him for a long time? In the midst of people, you can't even remember the Lord's Prayer, much less a certain ominous subject that perhaps is made up not of words but of events. A person has to go off somewhere into an inaccessible, silent place--and maybe the dead are people who have withdrawn from everything in order to reflect upon life.


She had looked upon him so fully and so long over the hours she had been alone with him that it seemed to her that he had tumbled into the depths of her dark eyes and perished there and was now beginning within her a new and eternal life, the one in which he, as a Christian, had believed. With this new sensation in her young body, she stood through many long days on the roof and searched for the sea...Up there, Esther gave birth to a tender blond child.


"I've been sad," he said hesitantly. "I thought- but you're not at all miserable," he suddenly blurted out. Klara smiled.
"You've heard my story?"
"Yes, that is-"
"Oh," Klara interrupted him when she saw his features becoming troubled, "it's not people's fault that they talk about it otherwise. The things we experience often cannot be expressed, and whoever talks about them inevitably makes mistakes anyway."