Father Peregrine Quotes & Sayings

"Father Peregrine, won't you ever be serious?"

"Not until the good Lord is. Oh, don't look so terribly shocked, please. The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are ridiculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to His humor."

"I never thought of God as humorous," said Father Stone.

"The Creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man?" Oh, come now!" Father Peregrine laughed.

Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man — Ray Bradury

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears. — Louise Penny

For modern science, at least from a philosophical point of view, the critical divide seems to be between inanimate matter and the origin of living organisms, while for Buddhism the critical divide is between non-sentient matter and the emergence of sentient beings. — Dalai Lama XIV

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other. — Dick Cavett

But what is shape? Only a cup for the blazing soul that God provides us all. — Ray Bradbury

Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt - my own, my father's, and my grandfather's, too. I tried my best to explain. "It's not about destiny," I said, "but I do think there's balance in the world, and sometimes forces we don't understand intervene to tip the scales the right way. — Ransom Riggs

We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women. — Margaret Atwood

And just like that he took me away into another world. A place where I was cherished, and where I could forget about a time when I never dared to dream about being loved like this. — Raine Miller