Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Blessing in Disguise

He had lost his faith early. It did not make sense, and it gave him no comfort. If one was looking for comfort in this life, then it would have been better, he thought, to seek comfort in the prospect that something might be done about the suffering. Yet here he was in this church, out of sheer loneliness, pretending to believe.

The Unfortunate Fate of Kitty Da Silva by Alexander McCall Smith

There's always the jolt of satisfaction every time you read a book and you found it's talking about something exactly what you had in mind ages ago. It's like discovering the a-ha moment and saying to yourself and the world, "There you go, I knew I wasn't crazy!".

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