Quotes from Doomsday Book — Connie Willis
born 1945 United States
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Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
Doomsday Book (1992)
It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
Doomsday Book (1992)
Nobody deserves this. “Please,” she prayed, and wasn’t sure what she asked.
Whatever it was, it was not granted.
Doomsday Book (1992)
It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.
Doomsday Book (1992)